Sentence examples for addled from inspiring English sources
"addled" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an adjective that means confused or muddled, and can usually be used to describe somebody's thoughts, ideas, behavior, etc. For example: "After studying for days on end, his addled mind couldn't remember the answers to the exam."
adjective
Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
His job has been addled by a parallel effort to audit recent expenses and to establish a new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which will have the final say on reform.Sir Christopher bemoans the effect of such bad behaviour and "the further damage that [it] will do to people's perception of Members of Parliament".
Correction to this articleHIS memories are addled, but the young member of Cocaine Anonymous can just about recall his formal drug education.
Plenty of people think the ANC is too far gone (too corrupt; too addled with weird ideologies; too riven with factions) to fix South Africa.
Babbling addled campaign slogans, he insures his life for his daughter, hires a hit man to kill him, and blissfully blows the gaff on his party's graft and sleaze.
Several of Turkey's banks, unprepared for this reversal and addled by corruption, failed.
Egypt's addled economy badly needs investment, but the regional climate makes this unlikely.
But basically it comes down to either gritting your teeth while a dotage-addled Hugh Hefner tails off in the middle of an anecdote about silicone, or gritting your teeth while Tom Cruise explains how very few hundred thousand dollars it would cost you to learn that we're all surrounded by alien spirits exiled to this planet by the galactic tyrant Xenu.
Nebraska looks like a splice of that film (George Clooney family saga) and Payne's previous, Sideways (ill-fated vineyard holiday) – it's a father/son road trip with the booze-addled Dern driving from Montana to Nebraska with estranged offspring (Saturday Night Live regular Will Forte) on the trail of a million-dollar prize.
Yields on Greek government debt briefly exceeded 9%; the spread between yields on German government bonds and those of debt-addled euro-zone countries widened and lower-rated corporate-bond yields rose sharply too.
Even a year ago, "The Inbetweeners Movie" sent its hormone-addled central foursome on holiday to a Greek island.In some respects "Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa" follows in this tradition as its plot is far more hair-raising than the character's usual parochial indignities.
FOR hormone-addled teenagers, finding a date can often seem to be a matter of life and death.
