doddering
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With characteristic savagery, Wolff portrayed Murdoch as a doddering nonagenarian unable to parse the changes in the cable business and unwilling to accept that American conservatism’s center of gravity had shifted away from him.
From Slate • May 15, 2024
He portrays himself as a doddering old man who is both daunted by his own disorganization and too dimwitted to understand this whole "subpoena" business.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2023
Whether Arkel is wise or a doddering old fool is a matter of question, which the veteran Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto answers with a loud affirmation of the latter.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023
It is still, depending on your preferences, a doddering throwback or an oasis of old-school rationality and calm.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing doddering
The Odyssey
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