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addled

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1. addled - Adjective

2. addled - Verb

4. addled - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Addle

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries. Arthur C. Clarke

This is life. People stumble and grope blindly hither and thither, wondering if they did the right thing, occasionally knocking something over and hoping no-one noticed, striving for illusory goals, addled with guilt and insecurity. John Derbyshire

What did he want? A tournament? Who does he think we are? The knights of the round bloody table? I don't know what happens to some folk. They put a sir in front of their names and their brains get addled. Fighting fair! Whoever heard of anything so daft? Fight fair and you lose. Bernard Cornwell

She can shoot like a dream and she carries tiny grenades in her top, a bit of my addled mind thought. I think I might be in love. Brandon Sanderson

Speech is often barren but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. George Eliot

As good be an addled egg as an idle bird. German Proverb

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