Definitions

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  • adjective unable to think straight
  • adjective constantly moving about

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Examples

  • Times Online Locum GP 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose - 35 mins ago

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • A foreign doctor who administered a fatal overdose to a 70-year-old man seemed tired and was "dithery" and "muttering to himself" at the time, the dead man's partner told an inquest today.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Times Online Locum GP 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose - 35 mins ago

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • Times Online Locum GP 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose - 35 mins ago

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • Genetic information no help yet in predicting diabetes onset, study finds German locum GP Daniel Ubani 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose, inquest told Senior Associate

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • "dithery" and "muttering to himself" at the time, the dead man's partner has told an inquest.

    ITN Headlines 2010

  • 'dithery' and was 'muttering to himself' at the time, the dead man's partner told an inquest today.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • And while we wait for Hilarie Burton to return to White Collar as Neil's squeeze — she's not in next week's episode, either (although True Blood's Joe Mangianello is a swell consolation prize) — she was clearly having a ball on Castle sending up the stereotype of a dithery sexpot of a reality diva (part Kim Kardashian, part Paris Hilton) implicated in the murder of a dog-show official.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2012

  • All that has done is provide us with a rich trove of oddball entertainment ranging from Sarah Palin's dithery dead-fish metaphors to the beetle-browed death threats of G. Gordon Liddy and the blatant racism of Pat Buchanan.

    Summer Rerun 2009

  • EG, as a character in AOT the wise admiral worked well, in reality was he as blind as Mac, as balls-out full on as Rommel, or dithery like Monty?

    Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge! 2010

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  • Gold Diggers Of 1937

    February 22, 2007

  • My thoughts wandered in a dithery circle around the miserable couple in the upstairs bedroom. -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

    December 11, 2010