addle-pated
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
But no moment must be lost, for they had a Trouet to reckon with besides these addle-pated peasants.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred
The fact was that there may have been an addle-pated Red among the mill hands of that time, but if there was I had never met him.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
It was universally regarded as a most addle-pated, imbecile affair from beginning to end.
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
