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Definition of addlebrained in US English: addlebrained(also addleheaded, addlepated) adjectiveˈadlˌbrāndˈadlˌbrānd Mentally muddled or lacking in common sense; confused, irrational. he made the addlebrained decision to install an uncertain rookie at point guard Example sentencesExamples - Let me just point out that even addlebrained as he is, Theodore is still a gentleman.
- Was this addlebrained twit asking you to loan her a knife & then go back to using that same knife - ON FOOD?
- It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.
- 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.
- The ‘sleigh ride’ my friend and I took yesterday evening in a pontoon boat on Lake Merritt was pleasantly addlebrained.
- Her addlebrained brother Governor Bellingham who can't see beyond the end of his nose is played by Dale Place.
- The problem is that the hostess is just this side of addlebrained.
- The actors who play them are spectacular, especially Bremner's addlebrained Spud and Carlyle's vicious Begbie.
- It's a pose that should not be taken seriously, nothing more than addlebrained adolescents playing naughty dress-up, bored children looking for attention.
- 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.
- 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?
- There is a sense of wild abandon in this addlebrained flick.
- Ray's really just an addlebrained pothead.
- This man is an addlebrained and barely coherent rabble-rouser.
- 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.
- 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.
Definition of addlebrained in US English: addlebrained(also addlepated, addleheaded) adjectiveˈadlˌbrānd Mentally muddled or lacking in common sense; confused, irrational. he made the addlebrained decision to install an uncertain rookie at point guard Example sentencesExamples - It's a pose that should not be taken seriously, nothing more than addlebrained adolescents playing naughty dress-up, bored children looking for attention.
- The actors who play them are spectacular, especially Bremner's addlebrained Spud and Carlyle's vicious Begbie.
- 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?
- The problem is that the hostess is just this side of addlebrained.
- 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.
- Her addlebrained brother Governor Bellingham who can't see beyond the end of his nose is played by Dale Place.
- It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.
- Let me just point out that even addlebrained as he is, Theodore is still a gentleman.
- The ‘sleigh ride’ my friend and I took yesterday evening in a pontoon boat on Lake Merritt was pleasantly addlebrained.
- This man is an addlebrained and barely coherent rabble-rouser.
- 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.
- Was this addlebrained twit asking you to loan her a knife & then go back to using that same knife - ON FOOD?
- Ray's really just an addlebrained pothead.
- 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.
- There is a sense of wild abandon in this addlebrained flick.
- 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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