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It must be like the dipsy pater familias turning up to a family gathering where everyone knows he has frittered away their inheritance.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2017

Stephen Hanan makes him a dipsy old charmer who deplores the lack of discipline in modern actors: Now, these kittens, they do not get trained As we did in the days when Victoria reigned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bellowing with delight, Bragg tossed wood shavings in the air, waved his arms about his head and bounded about the field like a dipsy kangaroo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several former military men who served along the DMZ in Viet Nam are already looking forward to a return to the fascinating twilight world of "dipsy doodle" radar scans and "big bird" spy satellites.

From Time Magazine Archive

I told Ez we’d ought to have fetched along a dipsy lead, then maybe we could get our bearin’s by soundin’s.

From Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln


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