Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
addle . - adjective of eggs
bad ,rotten ;inviable , containing adead embryo - adjective
Confused ;mixed up .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective confused and vague; used especially of thinking
- adjective (of eggs) no longer edible
Etymologies
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Examples
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Considering the multitude of arguments you have assigned to me that I did not make, the only one making you look "addled" is you.
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I think you're a little addled from the shed obsession.
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You left out the bush whackers, rump rangers, fifth column traitors, child pornographers, baby rapers, brain addled dope smoking malcontents, serial abortionists, incorrigible violent criminals and drug pushers as well as the Clintons that make up the Filthy Left wing of the Liberal Losers.
Think Progress » Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002 2006
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You left out the rump rangers, child pornographers, baby rapers, brain addled dope smoking malcontents, and drug pushers as well as the Clintons that make up the Filthy Left wing of the Liberal Losers.
Think Progress » Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002 2006
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And we have a nine-year-old daughter, Emma, who, although she doesn ` t watch enough TV to have her mind addled, is still exposed every now and then to the latest Hollywood drivel aimed at kids.
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We have an arrogant and ignorant president with a brain addled by long use of alcohol and cocaine and other drugs.
Think Progress » Rumsfeld Attacks Murtha: Says He Is Undermining Troops, Comforting Enemy 2005
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[sic], Dearest, nearly worn out; duty! duty!! study! study!! clamors at my heels all day long, and at night fatigued and weary I sit down to write with brain addled, thoughts confused, and scarcely strength or energy enough to originate a thought or conceive an idea, and so it is to night, as you perceive from what has preceded, and no hope for the better.
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,March 11, 1857 2008
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But with my brain addled from lack of sleep (plus the other fun side-effects of depression), I’m finding it very hard to run at full capacity on this.
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Hey, call me the world’s biggest nay-sayer, but when I was brain-addled from a world-class case of PPD, I would have hated having to strain my brain to figure out what my therapist was saying.
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Most of these people aren’t Americans and those who are brain addled druggies and 60’s throwbacks.
Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces 2005
salome commented on the word addled
I learned this word from reading Don Quixote in high school.
May 5, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word addled
Hash browns stirred with scrambled eggs while frying.
Cf this list.
September 21, 2009
JTroyer commented on the word addled
"Anyway, I'm not really addled." Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
October 17, 2010