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Meanings of doddering in English

Mentally or physically infirm with age.

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        Usage of doddering in English
        1
        He and Edgar were not doddering queens, but men of sovereign authority.
        The new yorker
        2
        He toils as an uninspired poetry teacher and a doddering single dad.
        Reuters
        3
        I'd be a doddering old man before I got through-thirtyyears old.
        Mary Wollaston
        4
        I want you to be with me till we're old and doddering.
        Funland
        5
        Ey, and he called me 'doddering fool;' but look at him now!
        The Chessmen of Mars
        6
        I will leave this place of doddering old magi and ambitious young ones.
        Arthas: rise of the lich king
        7
        He hardly seemed the same sickly, doddering man I'd nursed back to health.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
        8
        This was no obscure state ruled by a doddering depraved prince.
        The Rains Came
        9
        Today's errand: rescue the doddering Doctor, frogmarch him into the Palace.
        The system of the world
        10
        Young Oldershaw and the doddering Hosack measure up to your standard.
        Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
        11
        He was a doddering old ass when he came to consult the oracle.
        Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
        12
        These doddering fools should serve him, thinking the while that they served themselves.
        The Adventures of Kathlyn
        13
        The greatest picaresque since Cervantes and Diderot is thrown away in doddering schtick.
        The new yorker
        14
        I'm a doddering lunatic, incapable of thinking of anything but you.
        King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays
        15
        He reeled and swayed, doddering like a drunken man to keep from falling.
        The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
        16
        Say, I'll bet Flint taken that doddering idiot's pass away for writing that.
        Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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