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
I am not as a rule addle-headed; his influence must have affected me.
From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Why, look at William, now—the first time he axed me to marry him, I kept sayin' 'you're still slue-footed an' slack-kneed an' addle-headed an' I'll marry you whether or no.'
From The Miller Of Old Church by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
An addle-headed theorist, he was, till a woman got hold of him—one of the other kind, you know—and gave him something practical to think about.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
