addle-headed

Example Sentences

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Before assuring his actors that they are addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don’t you?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

I'm her clever uncle Tom; and you're her addle-headed aunt Julia.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

What hope is there left for mankind as long as addle-headed, honest men see naught but justice in whatever order they receive?

From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

"He's no worse than many others, and the people of this State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans."

From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank