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

Michael Rust knows too much to trust that addle-headed fool.’

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

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

I was quite addle-headed for the time being, and think an amateur or so would revive me.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina