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
What hope is there left for mankind as long as addle-headed, honest men see naught but justice in whatever order they receive?
From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
The futility of this campaign of murder is typified by making Von Tirpitz, its inventor, an addle-headed seahorse, the nursery comedian of the sea.
From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Raemaekers, Louis
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
