Wordnik : dodderer examples and sentences

"I am mostly healed, my lady, thanks to your sorcery, and I will not sit around the liedburg and be thought a useless old dodderer." — Darksong Rising
But why, why had Ginny settled on this old dodderer for our ally? — Operation Luna
More and more since he'd handed over the wagon-making business to Young Tom a year ago, the whole family treated him like a dodderer. — AHMM,January-February2008
Some old dotard or dodderer, they were told, said so. — Pickwickian Studies
"I wonder why that old dodderer is so long? — With Haig on the Somme
"Hell, I don't expect to be a dodderer when I get there. — Operation Luna
Mr Conway had been particularly offensive that day, not to Kay, in whom Mr Semple was not interested, but to Mr Loveday, who, although an old dodderer (in Mr Semple’s opinion), happened also to be Mr Semple’s old Housemaster. — Tom Brown’s Body - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 22: 1949
I was expecting to see a querulous old dodderer, but not a bit of it; he’s as chirpy as a cricket Not really!’ he exclaimed. — Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100
This ancient dodderer, who has seen better days, deigned favour me with six notices (January 2 and March 27, '86; April 30, June 4, August 14,' 87, and — Arabian nights. English
‘You poor old dodderer,’ he said. — The Third Wexford Omnibus

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