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
Almost nothing has been immune from Kusama's dottiness: horses and cats, buses and houses, trees and fields and rivers, she has camouflaged them all.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2012
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
In the interview he joked a half-dozen times about his impending dottiness and mortality.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
"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
