I can remember my grandmother admonishing my cousins and me not to addle her so that she lost her concentration in whatever she was doing. From LearnThat.org. [http://alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/addle]
We’m kind of addle-headed and over-set, one way and ’tother, and can’t seem to take to any notion.”. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Will the addle-pated wight have the grace to sheer off?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Dear Newmania, do take care; Sussex may addle your brain. From Wordnik.com. [Opening boxes] Reference
It had to addle his memory and destroy his judgment first. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
Even addle-minded zombies that belong to cults have feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Scientology Protestor Prosecuted Because Of Sign] Reference
Michael Rust knows too much to trust that addle-headed fool. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
What dullards, what fribbles, what addle-headed simple coxcombs!. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
Troilus! why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg. From Wordnik.com. [Troilus and Cressida] Reference
Like I'm a goddamned addle-biained simpering secretary, E.E. fumed. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
INQUIRY: Did you spend padded room time with the addle-minded Senator?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashback: McCain Was Against Candidates Using Vietnam Experience Before He Was For It] Reference
Just standing around doing nothing, thought Jeff, that would addle me. From Wordnik.com. [The Norby Chronicles]
Did she think to render him so addle-witted that he would propose marriage?. From Wordnik.com. [The Outrageous Dowager]
The addle-brained brat you had to rescue off a Portuguese witch-burning pyre. From Wordnik.com. [Wagers of Sin]
Thought he knew himself to be muddy-minded and addle-pated, he could see that. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
He might be able to addle her senses, but her wits were clearly more resilient. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
She was nothing like his addle-witted mother and even less like his vapid sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Lest that not be sufficient to occupy her, he exerted himself to addle her in company. From Wordnik.com. [Captives Of The Night]
I could have knocked you and that addle-pated Ben Lathrop on the head any day I wished!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
Two full head shots it had taken-which should have been enough to addle any brains it had. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Piper]
Nevertheless, confusion over the terms of a Greek rescue package continued to addle traders. From Wordnik.com. [Greece Woes Hit Stock Markets] Reference
Which is why I chose to have Skelly come to this encounter feverish, and somewhat addle-brained. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Dan Fesperman about The Prisoner of Guantanamo] Reference
The sun beating down hour after hour would addle my brains and check the orderly sequence of thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
Look-the GOP has control of their addle-pated red staters, and they will use any propaganda to keep them. From Wordnik.com. [Compromising now-impeachment later.] Reference
He had been a half-wit, rather beloved because he caused no harm, but so addle-brained he couldn't even much walk. From Wordnik.com. [Vittorio, The Vampire]
Tell her, when she buss dat egg, she better look right sharp en see is de hen ain 'got it noways addle like cause. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Irrational, addle-brained people who have the audacity to think that they have a right to speak to me without respect. From Wordnik.com. [Customer service in reverse « BuzzMachine] Reference
To them it could seem now and then that I had accepted my role of addle-pated Nan, but they were a little suspicious still. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
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