addle-pated
Example Sentences
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He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
