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
Five or six addle-headed schemes for getting rid of your money, and about as many bucket shop prospectuses.”
From Jacob's Ladder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
He is a true pioneer, and therefore he is not an idle man, nor a loafer, nor a weak addle-headed tippler.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)
The poor spiritless addle-headed ghost that has hitherto haunted our blue chambers is of no use to us.
From The Angel and the Author, and others by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
