How to Use addled in a Sentence

addled

adjective

• Sure, there were some addled clowns not of this realm peppered throughout the amphitheater.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 12 July 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
• 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
• But in the pilot, Logan is an addled old man stumbling down the dark hallways of his new home until his wife, Marcia (Hiam Abbass), tracks him down and switches the light on to reveal him confused and peeing on the carpet.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024