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

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

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

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

It's my opinion he's got that cough wi' sittin i' wet shoes and stockins; an' that Mrs. Wagstaff's a poor addle-headed thing; she doesn't half tek care on him.'

From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George