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)

I have no pleasure," she continued, "amongst these dull and addle-headed people—who smoke and eat themselves into a heaviness that's insupportable.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

The poor spiritless addle-headed ghost that has hitherto haunted our blue chambers is of no use to us. 

From The Angel and the Author, and others by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)