Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
addle-headed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“She surely deserves it all,” Graham murmured, although vaguely hurt in that the addle-pated, alphabet-obsessed, epicurean anarchist of an Irishman who gloried in being a loafer and a pensioner should even mildly be in love with the Little Lady.
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Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed.
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At such moments I find it well to turn to the testimony of other men to prove to myself that I am not becoming over-wrought and addle-pated.
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They need to get the director of that one Weezer video to make the perfect movie for all of you daft addle-pated fuck-bubbles.
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Look-the GOP has control of their addle-pated red staters, and they will use any propaganda to keep them.
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This ignoble persona is an addle-pated boor -- wait -- that's far too polite, it's an amoral neanderthal without any human qualities whatsoever.
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And it's only because we're all smart enough to know that a pompous, addle-pated, limp witted, butt sniffing, reality impaired, assmonkey troll like you isn't interested in 'discussion'.
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Little did I know, addle-pated was going to be the word for the day.
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Of course, I kicked myself for being so addle-pated..
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The age that stippled the continent of Europe with buildings of incomparable beauty, massive and soaring and delicate all at once, that invented the university, and far-flung capitalism, and the chivalric romance; that gave us the great and wise Dante and the greater and wiser addle-pated Francis, that age had to be "honored" with papers on "fecopoetics" and "menstruating male mystics" and Xena, Warrior Princess.
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