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addled
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synonyms: turbid, addlepated ???
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Definition:1. confused2. rotten; spoiled
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Then he looked back and saw nothing on the road. He felt dreary as an empty house; and tender memories mingling with the sad thoughts in his brain, addled by the fumes of the feast,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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“How much do ye weigh, Sassenach?”
Still a bit addled, I actually replied “Nine stone,” before thinking to ask “Why?”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance. It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman should be given a second chance.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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My mind is addled by Diet Coke and my own body odor.
Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.326 (2012)
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"You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don't you?"
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Stale eggs, if it was quite certain that they were too far gone to be able to be hatched, were grudgingly permitted, but all eggs offered for sale had to be submitted to an inspector, who, on being satisfied that they were addled, would label them “Laid not less than three months” from the date, whatever it might happen to be.
Samuel Butler. Erewhon
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