I'm old, but my brain is not that addled yet.
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Addled
//ˈæ.dəld//
Synonyms for "addled" (104 found)
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Translations
5 translations across 4 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- rot adj (rotten (of eggs))
Greek
1 entries- κλούβιος adj (rotten (of eggs))
Latvian
2 entries- sapuvusi adj (rotten (of eggs))
- vanckars adj (rotten (of eggs))
Russian
1 entries- проту́хший adj (rotten (of eggs))
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been—in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away—by the fervour of this reproach.
Source: wiktionary
I haven’t a bit o’ patience with you—sitting on an addled egg for ever, as if there was never a fresh un in the world.
Source: wiktionary
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice-peg, / We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg,
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