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
Do the addle-headed creatures suppose, that the smallest event is not subservient as a link to the necessity of eternal laws?
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Thirlwall, Connop
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
"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 Dickens, Charles
