dottiness
Example Sentences
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For another thing, her mother is played by Jane Krakowski, with a dottiness that can curdle into malice, as she badgers her older daughter about getting married and moving out.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2019
Leo Nucci sang Nabucco with the quiet dignity of the ageing man he portrays, Lear-like in his descent into dottiness.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013
Betty Buckley, whom I last saw in Promises, Promises half a lifetime ago, lends the heroine the right air of dreamy dottiness, as if still inhabiting the Paris of the Belle Epoque.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
In the interview he joked a half-dozen times about his impending dottiness and mortality.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
"Why should all England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness?"
From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
