How To Use Dotty In A Sentence

  • Murtha couldn't really do anything about it even as Majority Leader, and he sounds kind of dotty, even if he's right. No further Murtha.
  • It's just as dotty to say short people are more at risk because they are nearer bus exhaust pipes.
  • This system can offer high capacity , dot to receive a service to dotty broadband.
  • She's eccentric but never dotty and, unlike some Arcatis, her femininity is never in doubt.
  • She was obviously going a bit dotty.
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  • I don't care anything about their old tolly-blows -- do you, Johnny?" said Dotty. Dotty Dimple At Home
  • Indeed, one might say the king was a bit dotty about these handsome little dogs, who were invariably black and tan and who graced the paintings of Titian, Van Dyck and other artists.
  • We were considered dotty then to have put a gallery in Collingwood.
  • She said it might be time to rethink the "dotty" system. Labour conference live – Sunday 26 September
  • Yes | No | Report from bustinbass wrote 32 weeks 5 days ago this still aint the biggest bass ever hooked and landed, even though it was foul hooked while sight fishin "dotty" the 25 pound largemouth bass in 2005 came from lake dixon in california. sadly it was found dead not too long ago floating in the lake still weighin an impressive 19 pounds Is This The New World-Record Largemouth?
  • The Suimin, or sleep room, is one of those slightly dotty inventions that the Japanese seem to specialise in, a hi-tech bedroom that offers sleep-deprived Tokyoites at least a few minutes of unbroken slumber.
  • Dotty drained the nipperkin at two draughts, and said it wasn't half enough. Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's
  • She's dotty about this latest boyfriend.
  • Journalists, especially those who write a slightly dotty column, sometimes wonder if they are talking to themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • And is it better to have one sane and one mad mother/mother-in-law, or is better that they are both equally just slightly dotty?
  • His sister, Mary, is trapped in domesticity, caring for her ailing, dotty father and her maddening mother. The Lambs of London: Summary and book reviews of The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd.
  • Old and dotty, I admit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Desmond Fairchild and Dotty Blundell were heard arguing in the corridor, though no one could be sure what was at issue.
  • Are you a US-based S&T reader who is dotty about soccer?
  • The talk was lively enough, -- about two new cases that had arrived that afternoon, the deer-hunting season that had just closed, bear tracks discovered on Bolton Hill near the lumber-camp, and a new piano that a friend had sent for the convalescent or "dotty" ward, as they called it. Together
  • Now the book is drawn in a kind of dotty pen-and-ink style that seemingly bears equal thanks to both Peter Sis and Paul O. Archive 2006-07-01
  • Eddie's mother, once a sweet, dotty emblem of elder abuse, has become oddly sinister.
  • It's a dotty idea, but also rather delightful. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no shortage of dotty regulations, preferably in particularly obtuse gobblydegook legalese, which can be held up as examples of those headed for the chop and the dottier the better: Labour will look intensely foolish if they try to defend some of the dafter things that can be thus paraded. Stealth Tax Cuts
  • Old and dotty, I admit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dotty was effusive in her thanks.
  • I freely confess I'm as dotty as you are.
  • Yet Seibei is grave and self-possessed, not a sloven but a man committed to various duties-among them the care of his dotty mother and his two beloved children.
  • In those months, Plath lived above a slightly dotty old man who was one of the unreliable narrators of the Plath legend and the last person to see her alive (he is played here by Gambon).
  • His dotty malapropisms often misrepresent him as a man closer to senility than sense but, at 69, he is still sharp enough to be able to match Fergie in the mental boxing ring.
  • Sheep wandered in and out like slightly dotty long-term guests who haven't noticed that their hosts have left.
  • Back then, he seemed to be living on another planet, a delightfully dotty and scholarly man untouched by the more mundane aspects of the modern world.
  • they are dotty about each other
  • It's driving me and my grandchildren dotty not knowing.
  • Re whether it's "dotty" to think that this story will affect votes -- I think that people who write blogs tend to overestimate their effect in elections to roughly the same extent that people who don't write blogs underestimate their effect. <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-just-want-to-say-this-right-now-that.html" title="I just want to say this right now that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep them.
  • Any attempt to increase tolerance - however dotty or blush-making - should be respected.
  • He painted a delightful, if slightly dotty, portrait of him in the early decades of the twentieth century.
  • She wore a dotty cropped top and grey trousers and delighted fans by giving a flash of her tanned and toned midriff. The Sun
  • Dotty Harmer's cottage was the only house to be seen here, basking among the buttercups like a warmly golden cat.
  • They would make great presents for kids or dotty uncles.
  • In the run-up to the election he described plans for an arbitration scheme to judge banks when they refuse lending to small businesses as "dotty" and politically motivated. Richard Lambert steps down early as CBI director general
  • But as Kris Kringle, he played a slightly dotty old fellow who believes he's really Santa Claus - and actually may be, after all.
  • A grand-daughter helping her slightly dotty grand-dad tie his tie is the sort of schmaltz that sucks me in.
  • Viko leaves behind a "dippy" father, a "dotty" mother, a bewildered sister, and likely some sort of pets or offspring which I could have taken the time & trouble to look up — but, really, who cares? Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files:
  • I was tweeting on these dotty matters last week when a friendly follower directed me to a useful page devoted to the history of the polka dot. Times, Sunday Times
  • A dinosaur-dotty mum, who helped discover a missing link in our past, has been causing a real flutter in the scientific world.
  • Each life discussed here is, in its own way spectacular, a far cry from the popular image of the Victorian female folklorist as a harmless, if slightly dotty, amateur sitting at home waxing lyrical about fairies and Morris dancing.
  • It is that afterthought - a sort of half-dotty intentness on completion such that an alternative river has to be provided to receive the delinquent bullocky - that imbues this observation with its ironic momentum.
  • Slightly dotty but with a taste for high-risk gambles, Henderson hired the seasoned pro Van Damm to manage the Windmill.
  • And 'ow they all went dotty when we' owled the Marcelaisey! Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
  • On this particular morning he found Dotty in a somewhat agitated mood.
  • A dotty diva: Is Mariah Carey pop's pottiest star? WN.com - Articles related to Job agencies facing 'drastic' income drop from fee ban
  • 'spiffing' and 'good egg' in my humble, but their use all helps to ensure that there is a slightly dotty, frenetic, flapperish atmosphere which makes these stories so agreeable. Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover
  • In the scenes in which she was abused by the vindictive villagers, Doone gave a moving representation of the ruffled pride of the old and slightly dotty.
  • It's one of these sixty-cent table dotty joints, with an electric name sign, a striped stoop awnin ', and a seven-course menu manifolded in pale purple ink. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
  • Dotty took a 1958 Ford Prefect, slapped three turbochargers on it, filled it with high-octane fuel and gave it to a 17-year old who crashed it.
  • She has become the dotty and unpredictable aunt that you roll your eyes about but can't help liking somehow. Times, Sunday Times
  • READY to go a bit dotty? The Sun
  • To make this dotty garland, stick two round self-adhesive labels back-to-back, sandwiching thin string between them.
  • She was getting a bit dotty and could never be left alone.
  • She was getting a bit dotty and could never be left alone.
  • READY to go a bit dotty? The Sun
  • She was getting a bit dotty and could never be left alone.
  • His dotty brand of bush psychology didn't deserve a response - not even a laugh.
  • Dotty was destroyed after savaging one of the Queen's corgis at the Sandringham estate shortly before Christmas two years ago.
  • My Mum is dotty about sheep.
  • I was tweeting on these dotty matters last week when a friendly follower directed me to a useful page devoted to the history of the polka dot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus, one is left with three morals that are also the morals to so many modern tales: the celebrity media is far too dominant for anyone's good; fame turns already dotty people even dottier, and have more faith in your own judgment instead of listening to idiots. The Guardian World News
  • A few things had been added: a hennery, -- called by Dotty "a henpeckery" -- and a graceful white boat, named the Water-Kelpie. Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple
  • Dotty Harmer's cottage was the only house to be seen here, basking among the buttercups like a warmly golden cat.
  • ‘They held a meeting and said there was nothing we could do,’ recalls Dotty Jones, a former meat cutter in Jacksonville.
  • He offers you the spectacle of an ironic, intelligent 47-year-old man gazing at Yelena with the dotty helplessness of a moonstruck adolescent: aware of his own absurdity but powerless to prevent it.
  • He had only gentle, dotty old neighbors.
  • Journalists, especially those who write a slightly dotty column, sometimes wonder if they are talking to themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • With commendable promptitude, he caught Harrison by the collar and held him firmly, while Agnes and Dotty recovered their balance.
  • Certainly Dotty was less effusive in her thanks when Stella brought her up a tray of tea in the interval.
  • For starters, the audience's attention was tea-leafed by Deez and Co. fashioning some eccentrically dotty dancing. Lydia Hughes: Darwin Deez at Glastonbury
  • And the great Maggie Smith, as a dotty old dame named Mrs. Docherty, grabs her moment of unglory by sitting on a pad of cowflop that goes squish. 'Last Dancer': Ultimately on Point
  • Five minutes into the First Act Dotty Blundell forgot her lines and snapped her fingers for a prompt.
  • She has become the dotty and unpredictable aunt that you roll your eyes about but can't help liking somehow. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a regular visitor at Dotty Harmer's,(sentence dictionary) glorying in the variety of animals to be found there.
  • Certainly Dotty was less effusive in her thanks when Stella brought her up a tray of tea in the interval.
  • I want to see those great windows again; it's 25 years since I was last there: a dingy neoclassical mansion with two elderly Gore-Booth sisters and a slightly dotty and antique brother showing visitors around.
  • It's a dotty idea, but also rather delightful. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was tweeting on these dotty matters last week when a friendly follower directed me to a useful page devoted to the history of the polka dot. Times, Sunday Times
  • They do it on purpose, I know they do, so as firmly to establish your new status as a slightly dotty old age pensioner, grateful for anything you can get but never quite understanding it, and completely uncertain about everything.
  • In the event it mixed a few sensible ideas (faster help for those whose banks threaten to repossess their houses) with a few dotty ones (luring first-time buyers into a falling market).

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