doddering

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Because McCain is a doddering, angry, short-tempered and vicious man who whored out what honor he had left for another chance at winning the Presidency and feeding his egomania.

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  • Of course, the whole point of salvers is to make someone feel special, whether a household pet or a doddering London club member being served his brandy on one. —  The Word Detective
  • Every trifling thing that came along made him tear up like a doddering fool. —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • Perhaps she has reason; she is ninety-three years old But that's doddering, for a human! —  Geis of the Gargoyle
  • That's ancient and doddering, for the average human being But Magician Trent must be old too, so they're even Ninety-seven, technically. —  Geis of the Gargoyle
  • But Ganelon was old and doddering, and de Somerville's hold on the duchy of Trevalion was tenuous, for the Azzallese had loved their Prince Baudoin, and did not take kindly to having a scion of Anael rule them. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
 

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doddering:   dodder
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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