dottiness
Example Sentences
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For another thing, her mother is played by Jane Krakowski, with a dottiness that can curdle into malice, as she badgers her older daughter about getting married and moving out.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2019
So a ticking clock inspires “The Pit and the Pendulum,” a once beloved pet becomes the horror of “The Black Cat,” his foster mother’s dottiness calls forth “The Imp of the Perverse.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2015
The dialogue aspires to a kind of farcical, dreamlike dottiness, and once or twice I did feel the prudish grimace that had settled on my face cracking with something approaching mild amusement.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
My new novel, Chapman's Odyssey, is dedicated to Sandra's memory, most particularly in those passages of humour that reflect something of her beguiling dottiness.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2011
"Why should all England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness?"
From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
