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palsied

adjective as in afflicted by palsy

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He tottered about, shivering, and stuffed every open chink as well as he could with his palsied paws, until no light came through anywhere.

She had the intellectual capacity of a two-year-old, was incontinent, never fully regained her ability to speak, struggled to perform basic daily maintenance routines, and had a palsied arm.

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A plucky disregard for public opinion has its charms, but Mastriano perhaps too wholeheartedly embraces John Quincy Adams’s 1825 injunction that politicians should not be “palsied by the will of our constituents.”

He struggled with palsied hands to shield his exposed body with a thin towel.

“If we hadn’t been involved, very soon there would have been others to work for the cerebral palsied,” she wrote in a 1983 foreword to “Karen.”

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

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