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UK
/dˈɒdəɹi/
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ADJECTIVE
-
mentally or physically infirm with age
his mother was doddering and frail
How To Use doddery In A Sentence
- How doddery old pensioners manage to keep track of that darn game, I'll never know.
- It is fashionable to say they are swivel-eyed or doddery. Times, Sunday Times
- The difference is that now they have weak-kneed, wobbly, doddery leadership and they are falling over.
- At the outset critics cruelly wrote him off as a doddery old bloke who lacked the drive and energy necessary to head a modern, dynamic political party.
- ‘Baby-boomers want to be presented as something other than doddery old senior citizens,’ he says.
- Henry Hathaway's 1969 "True Grit" was neither "doddery" nor "miscast" - it was perfect; and Glen Campbell's character was not "a major character" - he was there to provide a little light ballast to the tense, central relationship between Mattie and Cogburn. With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth
- We sounded pretty good for a bunch of doddery old men.
- He's a bit slower physically but he's not doddery, so I decided not to go that way with Cecil.
- It was regarded as a family firm - a bit slow and doddery but a caring and kind place to work.
- It doesn't help that most judges are rich, doddery old men who have lost touch with the real world and cannot empathise with women.