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 have no pleasure," she continued, "amongst these dull and addle-headed people—who smoke and eat themselves into a heaviness that's insupportable.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

But the addle-headed police, ready to handcuff David Hume, never thought of inquiring about strangers who came and went at Stowmarket in those days.

From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis

The people were far too addle-headed, even for him. . . .

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John