The word "addle" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb which means to become confused or muddled; to become mentally dull or confused. Example sentence: His mind had addled after spending days without sleep.
From trying to figure out if a shape is actually moving to whether it's changing colour, the best optical illusions can really addle your brain.
Sportingly, Plimpton made no attempt to addle his foe either with drink or with gabble.
In Abish's second collection, "In the Future Perfect" (1977), several stories ("Ardor / Awe / Atrocity" and "In So Many Words") adorn narratives of a flat American sordidness with alphanumeric games, Teutonically rigorous in their ingenuity, that addle the reader's brain like the insistent chimes of a canzone or a villanelle.
What I'll call Duveenism elevated the Old Masters into an empyrean of "priceless" merit that continues to addle our common sense of what art is and what role it might play in our lives.
The motion-picture version of "My Sister Eileen," coming on top of first the stories (which I wrote) and the play (which two other people wrote), has served completely to addle my memory if not my wits.
The office of the vice presidency seems to addle many occupants, and that goes back centuries before Cheney.
The narrative then alternates between the story of Veneering's impoverished upbringing in interwar England and the exploits of his last remaining contemporaries — Dulcie, an addle-brained widow, and Fred Fiscal-Smith, an insufferable childhood friend.
(What if an employer objected to the notion of having children out of wedlock? Would it have license to refuse insurance coverage for prenatal care to single moms?) It was defeated 51-48, which means a two-vote shift would have sent this addle-brained bill to the House.
He still has the March Hare for his companion, and the pair are as delightfully feeble and addle-brained as ever.
Who can resist a heroine who calls her enemies 'stupid addle-pated boobies' and 'nasty old slubber-degullions'?
That did not stop Lower moving on to human experiments, paying an "addle-brained" man 20 shillings to receive blood from a lamb.
