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doddery

[ UK /dˈɒdəɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. mentally or physically infirm with age
    his mother was doddering and frail

How To Use doddery In A Sentence

  • It is important that they do not associate classical music with a bunch of doddery old men.
  • Just hours after handing the money in, the cash was claimed by a doddery old man who had dropped it on the way home from a bank.
  • These people don't fit the danger-driver stereotype - they aren't boy racers or doddery old dears who go everywhere in third gear.
  • But what we saw when Mr. Murdoch was hauled before the British Parliament earlier this week was a doddery old man who had to lean on his son for guidance, a man happy to say sorry but apparently unable to answer any detailed questions about the hacking affair, a man battered not just by our Parliamentarians but by a member of the public who managed to thrust what we call a custard pie into his face. Breaking News: CBS News
  • In front of him, a doddery old geezer with a walking stick stepped out in the road.
  • I saw him described in the press as a doddery old man, and someone in the last stages of senility.
  • At seventy-five, Davidson did not seem remotely doddery.
  • The bus detoured off the arterial road to visit a huge new superstore, picking up a doddery old man who shuffled slowly to the nearest seat.
  • There are quite a number of doddery rural rectors or vicars in this deanery, near to Pontywen. GOODBYE CURATE
  • The picture on his byline makes him look like a rather doddery retired professor with just a hint of Frankenstein's monster to his eyebrows and chin.
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