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Addle-brained

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Ad´dle-brained`
a.1.Dull-witted; stupid.
Dull and addle-pated.
- Dryden.


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Another student, Tom, was a poor speller whose teacher called him addle-brained and complained that he asked too many questions.
And, in a double irony, even those dreamers probably would have condemned an unemployment rate of 4 percent for its inflationary potential, lest they be considered both addle-brained and heretical.
I was beyond the new-house-fantasies of 10 years ago - those addle-brained notions of how one's life or habits might change in a new setting.
 
 
 
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