addled

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Occasionally the egg is found to be addled, and then the old birds make away with it in private.

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  • As a typical ADD-addled gamer, I appreciate being able to do something while the game dishes up exposition, even if it's just flicking between camera angles and pacing back and forth like a madman in Assassin's Creed. —  IGN Videogames
  • Other than being a former professional defenseman, Moore was Harvard educated, so the theory is you're getting a bit more than the check-addled musings of an ex-jock. —  PuckUpdate :: The Hockey Blog
  • The confused and probably deeply drink-addled dude pictured above showed up at our door sometime between December 6 - the day when Mikulás, the traditional Central European "Santa," shows up with (mostly edible) treats - and the 24th, when the Baby Jesus comes by with video game consoles and other even more useful goodies. —  Pestiside.hu
  • Being confused and probably deeply drink-addled ourselves, it took us a while to figure out that our visitor wanted us to take a couple of the baskets from him and then pass them on the old ladies living on either side of us, both of whom, by a remarkable coincidence, were not at home at the time. —  Pestiside.hu
  • Demented, drug-addled singer Amy Winehouse was seen topless in the sea - and in a bikini whilst in the arms of an unidentified man while on holiday in St. Lucia. —  The Hollywood Gossip
 

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addled:   addle
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