How to Use addled in a Sentence

addled

adjective

• By the time the ’60s were imploding, Brian had become more than an addled drug abuser.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• When the patient is a pain addled 95-year-old person, open heart surgery may not be the best idea .
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2019
• Even in a state of fatigue, my addled brain never missed a beat.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
• The looks came and came and came, testing even the most un-addled short-term memory.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 6 July 2018
• The still-addled Squirrels may have to sing to keep from going behind bars.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2018
• But today’s young people were too lazy or drug-addled to do them.
  — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
• Set in the '60s, the movie is about two drug-addled actors who go on vacation by mistake.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Feb. 2019
• My addled brain is a whiz at gathering new recipes to try and instruments to learn.
  — Jordan McMahon, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• Sure, there were some addled clowns not of this realm peppered throughout the amphitheater.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 12 July 2023
• Messrs Safdie employ a wide range of formal techniques to put the viewer inside Howard’s addled mind.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
• The narration passes back and forth between the convict's 13-year-old son and his drug-addled mother, Leonie.
  — Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
• Pacing and script issues, like costar Sean Bean’s addled and unproductive scenes, weigh the film down.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• The prose is frenetic, addled, guileless; Dunn was having so much fun.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• His songs seemed drug-addled and lethargic, as if delivered in slow motion.
  — WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
• One of the many effects of the virus has been highlighting the deficiencies of the bloc, with the old tensions between the frugal north and the debt-addled south returning.
  — Ben Sills, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2020
• Because the thing is, my soccer-addled son is undersized too.
  — Brad Rickman, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2018
• Emily resists but soon joins in, the Nancy to his addled Midwestern Sid.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
• The drug-addled twilight of Elvis’ life should be forgiven and forgotten.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
• In which case, Philadelphia should do the same thing that the Amazon-addled women of Seattle have become so good at.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• But 2008 was also a crucial period in the construction of the tech-addled world Americans now live in.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2020
• It’s hard to tear your eyes away even when the show gets dark because, beyond her drug-addled dysfunction, Rue is deeply human and relatable.
  — Hannah Hickok, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2019
• The fact that the story involves a coffee-addled, hard-boiled police detective Pikachu voiced by Ryan Reynolds makes its feat all the more incredible.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• The new record features a Ritalin-addled melange of vibes that often feel like Rihanna leftovers.
  — Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2019
• And the chicken has just enough of the herb’s resinous flavor to remind you of walking past a planter of flowering rosemary in some fog-addled corner of the city and running your fingers through the spiky green tresses.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2018
• And his precision makes for a telling inversion: children who understand things more clearly than their addled adults do.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 June 2019
• But the addled nature of the Trump era is such that Obama’s decision to follow the well-worn path of earlier presidents has been a fraught choice, one that many Obama supporters disagree with.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 25 June 2018
• These words, from a 13-year-old actor who’s just found four new real-life heroes to look up to, is what a movie like this, with all its face-peeling villains and cocaine-addled antiheroes, is really about.
  — Kelsea Stahler, refinery29.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• Down Under gets its very own chapter on its liquor-addled origins as a penal colony, when rum was currency and even inspired a military coup, the Rum Rebellion.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2018
• His reply felt like a revelation to my quarantine-addled mind.
  — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• When the story gets closer to the Fox News–addled present, more familiar characters rear up from unexpected angles.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024