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Addled

adjective

(of eggs) no longer edible.

Confused and vague; used especially of thinking. Synonyms: befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded. "Your addled little brain" , "Woolly thinking" , "Woolly-headed ideas"

Addle

verb

(past & past part. addled; pres. part. addling)

Mix up or confuse. Synonyms: muddle, puddle.

Become rotten.

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"Addled" Quotes from Famous Books

... her that's addled her," David explained. "It's these highly charged, hypersensitive young women that go to pieces under the modern pressure. They're the ones that need licking into shape ...

— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... will share our grief) that Mr. Hawthorne is out of health and is thereby prevented, for the present, from proceeding with another of his promised (or threatened) Romances, intended for this magazine'; or, 'Mr. Hawthorne's brain is addled at last, and, much to our satisfaction, he tells us that he cannot possibly go on with the Romance announced on the cover of the January magazine. We consider him finally shelved, and shall take early occasion to bury him under a heavy article, carefully ...

— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

... may take it from me, That of all the afflictions accurst With which a man's saddled And hampered and addled, A diffident nature's the worst. Though clever as clever can be— A Crichton of early romance— You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't ...

— Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs • W. S. Gilbert

... difficulties! And there would be none if I only could advertise for him. But if there is any way to do it that would not frighten him, I have not been able to think it out, and I have tried till my brains are addled. "If the gentleman who lately bought a mine in Mexico and sold one in Denver will send his address to—" (to whom, mother?), "it will be explained to him that it was all a mistake; his forgiveness will be asked, and full reparation made for a loss which he sustained in a certain ...

— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain

... Service I could not have been submitted to a more microscopic examination. Greatly reassured by his apparent benevolence, I had been at first very alert in my answers. But at length the feeling of my brain getting addled crept upon me. And still the passionless process went on, with a sense of untold ages having been spent already on mere preliminaries. Then I got frightened. I was not frightened of being plucked; that eventuality did not even present itself to my mind. It was something much more ...

— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad

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