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doddering
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synonyms: dotage, ~dotard, ~dotty ???
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Definition:1. unsteady, shaky gait due to old age2. mentally impaired from a common disease of elderly patients
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To Napoleon, the pseudo-grand homme, Tolstóy opposes the Russian Kutúzov. Kutúzov is not, in the heroic sense, a great man. He is lethargic, old, slightly doddering, pietistic. He is incapable of “grand strategy,” gives few orders, hardly listens to the reports of his subordinates.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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we rushed in and hurried from room to room to the amazement of a doddering old manservant, who met us in the passage.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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