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Meanings of doddery in inglês

Mentally or physically infirm with age.

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Examples for "gaga"
Examples for "gaga"
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Consumers aren't going as gaga for Google TV as manufacturers had hoped.
Wired
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Any literature lover will go gaga over any one of these, trust.
Ebony
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Maybe she thinks she wants this only because you're so gaga about it.
Seeing stars
4
Yet Gaga has played the fact that ARTPOP isn't great quite well.
The Irish Times
5
Lady Gaga had not been aware of the situation, a spokeswoman said.
Reuters
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Producers would rather have her in these senile parts than genuine article.
The new yorker
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The principal doctor was lost in the imbecilities of a senile optimism.
Eminent Victorians
3
The money-lender insinuatingly pushed the whisky bottle closer to the senile rancher.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
4
A dementia tax is the wrong connection, a punishment for becoming senile.
The Guardian
5
My grandad was pretty senile, but he could still read well enough.
Kafka on the Shore
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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
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I'd be a doddering old man before I got through-thirtyyears old.
Mary Wollaston
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I want you to be with me till we're old and doddering.
Funland
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Ey, and he called me 'doddering fool;' but look at him now!
The Chessmen of Mars
Usage of doddery in inglês
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The guy who was doing a very credible line in doddery old man.
The Irish Times
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Some thought his answers revealed a doddery, amnesiac jet-lagged octogenarian.
Reuters
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He was a little doddery and flat-footed, but he walked reasonably well for a man of eighty-eight.
Atonement
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And to achieve these goals, Turnball would have to play the soft, doddery reprobate for a while longer.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
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On more than one occasion, the 86-year-old apologised for appearing doddery, reminding the judges he was a great-grandfather.
BBC
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I'd have liked a few more stats and facts to go with the doddery driving and the music.
The Guardian
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Ancelotti, who managed the imperishable aristocrats of Milan, could give lectures on the folly of dismissing 29-year-olds as doddery.
The Guardian
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Next up for Landau is a role as J Howard Marshall, the doddery billionaire husband of Anna Nicole Smith.
The Guardian
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As I got nearer to the microphone, they'd hear this doddery voice going 'Do do do... do do do.'
Any Coincidence Is / Or, The Day Julia & Cecil the Cat Faced a F...
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Not even the doddery diner at the next table, madly demanding of every waiter, "Am I bothering you?"
The Guardian
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I'd also like to see the veteran sitcom actor Geoffrey Palmer, 89 this summer, as Young Mr Grace, the store's doddery but libidinous owner.
The Guardian
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He began to carol about his doddery old daddums and the good little woman who'd married him and on and on and so forth.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
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The overall image is increasingly of an ineffectual and doddery palace machine who seem to be losing control over the royal narrative and family members.
News.com.au
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Honestly, can you imagine me following a herd of doddery aristocrats around the countryside while they shoot pheasants and bemoan the evils of Reform Bills?
The crimson petal and the white
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"You can't share with your doddery old mother?" Spreading her arms.
Speaking in Bones
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The guy who was doing a very credible line in doddery old man.
The Irish Times
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