addle-pated
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He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet Wodehouse's absurd caricatures always made sense in their own addle-pated terms, and underlying each of the master's farces was the coherent comic statement that blithering idiocy was the finest bulwark of the Empire.
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Mr. J. has performed it yearly with that magnificent want of success which attends all his addle-pated efforts.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890 by Various
Thea, however, had one in the person of her addle-pated aunt, Tillie Kronborg.
From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert
What was the matter with the addle-pated things, anyway?
From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph