'dotty' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means eccentric or slightly crazy. Example: My great aunt was quite dotty in her old age, often forgetting what she was saying mid-sentence and telling wild stories.
The taking of two of these dotty works from a Notting Hill gallery is being treated as a big national news story, almost like the theft of a Rembrandt or a Picasso.
I began to realise how carefully she worked to mask her formidable talent and technical acuity – a kind of extreme autopilot – how she actively participated in the myth of the slightly dotty elderly lady with cameras in a shopping bag as a screen behind which to hide and prowl.
As Gatiss poses for photographs, suited and booted, he looks like a man out of his time, more than a little like the dotty Edwardian scientist he plays in The First Men in the Moon.
Gove's own dotty forays into what is taught – the stress, for instance, on "our island story" – often sounded very controlling, and yet they never counted for much, seeing as academies don't have to follow the curriculum.
Not a few on Wall Street regard the idea as dotty; they wish the SEC would regain the initiative in introducing reforms at a federal level, not, as is happening now, in a piecemeal way led by a few states.While uncertainty remains at the SEC, the job of the new accounting oversight board will be doubly difficult, if it can be done at all.
It may be that if she were allowed to act on her dotty ideas, she would die, while chemotherapy may save her (Hodgkin Lymphoma is one of the more treatable cancers).
I suspect Cassandra has some dotty ideas about chemotherapy.
An ad in which, against the usual bombastic soundtrack, his manager stares silently into the camera drawing on a cigarette struck some people as dotty, others as brilliant.
A radical left-wing outfit, dedicated to reducing inequality by doling out a stipend to every adult Briton, the Greens are far dottier than UKIP.
Mr Hollande says he will reverse a measure Mr Sarkozy introduced to dilute its impact by exempting overtime pay from income tax and social charges.The 75% income-tax rate is dottier than a pointilliste painting.
One top Tory, Reginald Maudling, called him "as nutty as a fruit cake"; another, Lord Hailsham, said he was "clever, even brilliant" but also "dotty .The objects of ridicule had the last laugh.
