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Of herself she was asking: "I wonder if she is in love with him And thus it transpired that Freddie Ulstervelt--addlepated, good-looking, inconstant Freddie, just out of college--was transformed into a bone of contention, whether he would or no He was of the kind who love or make love to every new girl they meet, seriously enough at the time, but easily passed over if need be.
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- adjective Befuddled; confused.
- adjective Eccentric; peculiar: "[Her] estates . . . are odes to addlepated excess, a melange of priceless antiques and thrift-store horrors” (Michelle Green).
- adjective Senseless; mad: "led the addlepated charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava” (Thomas Flanagan).
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And anyone who naysays this proposition is merely an addlepated ultracrepidarian!
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 - He couldn't forget the night in Lordsburg: the gun and the addlepated bullets. — Jed the Dead
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Of herself she was asking: "I wonder if she is in love with him And thus it transpired that Freddie Ulstervelt--addlepated, good-looking, inconstant Freddie, just out of college--was transformed into a bone of contention, whether he would or no He was of the kind who love or make love to every new girl they meet, seriously enough at the time, but easily passed over if need be.
— The Husbands of Edith - Perhaps I am an addlepated fool, but I must follow my hunch. " — Night Arrant
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And thus it transpired that Freddie Ulstervelt -- addlepated, good-looking, inconstant Freddie, just out of college -- was transformed into a bone of contention, whether he would or no.
— The Husbands of Edith
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/ (ădˈl-pāˌtĭd)/
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