doddering
Example Sentences
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The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025
Phil Hartman as both the doddering old man and the mastermind of the Iran-Contra plan is perfect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
The Marquess of Tilbury’s doddering hand rose to his pocket handkerchief.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing doddering
The Odyssey
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
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Copper Sun
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