addle-pated
Example Sentences
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He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Wodehouse's absurd caricatures always made sense in their own addle-pated terms, and underlying each of the master's farces was the coherent comic statement that blithering idiocy was the finest bulwark of the Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fact was that there may have been an addle-pated Red among the mill hands of that time, but if there was I had never met him.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
Of all the idiots," said the boy—"of all the miserable, shortsighted, thick-headed, addle-pated duffers and asses we are the worst!
From In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Glanville, Ernest
A rather addle-pated man has for some years been paying large sums to a correspondent, a woman as he believes, who has been painting his portrait again and again from photographs he has sent her.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
