dottiness

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.

He said Baroness Thatcher's press secretary Bernard Ingham could not treat lightly "the impression of dottiness, of a woman 'slightly off her trolley'."

Fiona seems to have inherited some of her aunt’s dottiness, and Gordon makes her a gawky delight to watch.

Well-off though not rich, Fuller’s Virginia has an amiable air of suburban dottiness.

She finally succeeds in making palpable the heartache at the root of Doris’s anxieties and abstracted dottiness, but those moments are almost perfunctory: The film’s open-ended finale, while optimistic, feels both too tidy and lax at the same time.