Sentence examples for a dotty from inspiring English sources
A dotty academic specialising in Byzantine history.
Who doesn't love a dotty aristocrat, eh? Tony Hadley.
Not simply because it's not new, and has a dotty story.
And dot's the way it is, as a dotty Walter Cronkite might conclude.
"It's just something to do," he sings, in a dotty musical finale.
Wandering nearby at this very moment, and ready to make trouble, is a dotty old actress named Tilly.
Still, he cannot help finding Galton a little dotty, a man gripped by an obsession with counting and measuring that made him "one of the Victorian era's chief exponents of the scientific folly".
This idea strikes me as more than a little dotty.As Jason Brennan, a philosopher at Georgetown, puts it, "this presupposes that if you hire someone for, say, 40 hours a week, you owe him enough money for him to lead a decent life".
By contrast, if you don't mind being a bit dotty — or worse than a bit — you can go for longevity.
Scatty, funny and brisk, it reads like a series of postcards from a posh, dotty relative and then – quite by stealth – becomes completely heartbreaking.
He is also able authoritatively to debunk the security services' self-serving efforts to downplay her role and paint her as merely a rather dotty old lady who did a spot of amateur spying.
