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anile

adjective as in doddering

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Example Sentences

A half anile flickered across the queen's face.

The object of Zoe's anile affection was a capable man, and justified his rather humiliating elevation by good service to the empire.

As to their religion, it had the reputation popularly, according to various Fathers, of being an anile superstition, the discovery of old women, a joke, a madness, an infatuation, an absurdity, a fanaticism.

Such a relief must have come to many readers of Cowper, who would put down his religion as rank fanaticism, and his satire as anile declamation.

The ladies 246 would not think so,” he added, mournfully wagging his head with anile melancholy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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