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

But now comes the nicety of the law; the law is as nice as a new-laid egg, and not to be understood by addle-headed people.

From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

I'm her clever uncle Tom; and you're her addle-headed aunt Julia.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

I was quite addle-headed for the time being, and think an amateur or so would revive me.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina