How To Use Addlebrained In A Sentence
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It's a pose that should not be taken seriously, nothing more than addlebrained adolescents playing naughty dress-up, bored children looking for attention.
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When the card companies describe their targets as subprime customers, the people they're referring to are your near-senile grandmother, your addlebrained teenager and your slow cousin Ed. It isn't people with Ph.D. s who were falling into the snare of two-cycle billing and retroactive interest increases.
Credit-Card Cos. Deserve Regulation
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Snoot heard himself talking like an addlebrained dolt, and he had no intention of stopping.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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Ray's really just an addlebrained pothead.
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The ‘sleigh ride’ my friend and I took yesterday evening in a pontoon boat on Lake Merritt was pleasantly addlebrained.
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If proposing a remake is generally an addlebrained conceit, how ridiculous is it to suggest reworking a movie by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time?
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She seems to be beaming in from some universe of her own devising, so far inside her character's addlebrained confusion that everything she says often in a slightly slurred accent that suggests George Jessel is funny.
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The problem is that the hostess is just this side of addlebrained.
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Was this addlebrained twit asking you to loan her a knife & then go back to using that same knife - ON FOOD?
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This man is an addlebrained and barely coherent rabble-rouser.
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It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.
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She would never in a million years admit it to her mother, but she was also worried that she was slowly becoming one of those addlebrained old spinster cat ladies.
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But an item from today's The Page helped me to remember that I had deemed Halperin to be worthless not merely on the strength of his constant, addlebrained photoshops, but also because of his knack for taking in the news of the day, missing the nuance, vomiting conventional wisdom in every direction and, ultimately, getting the story precisely wrong.
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Let me just point out that even addlebrained as he is, Theodore is still a gentleman.
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There is a sense of wild abandon in this addlebrained flick.
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So, the next time a politician or political party complains about activist judges, you’re simply hearing an epithet used by the addlebrained for a ruling they don’t like.
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With such an addlebrained--or, to drop the analogy completely, brainless--sorting mechanism choosing which variations succeed or fail, it is no surprise that the evolutionary history of a given structure cannot be determined by analyzing its current manifestation.
The Debate Over Intelligent Design
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Making her talking-picture debut in 1933's When Ladies Meet, Brady rapidly became one of Hollywood's most prolific portrayers of addlebrained society matrons and world-weary matriarchs.
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They will also be confounded by the extent to which the Lizard King comes off as an addlebrained, self-important bore away from the studio or stage.
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Fortunately, I decided to visit in February, when the chances of becoming addlebrained from the heat, anemic from the mosquito horde, or battered by a hurricane were mercifully low.
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His voice was persuasive; it reached a person's soul without passing by way of his head, and even to a being as addlebrained as Big João, it seemed like a balm that healed old and terrible wounds.
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Her addlebrained brother Governor Bellingham who can't see beyond the end of his nose is played by Dale Place.
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The actors who play them are spectacular, especially Bremner's addlebrained Spud and Carlyle's vicious Begbie.
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Snoot heard himself talking like an addlebrained dolt, and he had no intention of stopping.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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So brainwashing became a pejorative, and the phrase ‘you've been brainwashed,’ a term of reproach, as if the prisoner had become addlebrained, or a simpleton, during his captivity.