How To Use Doddery In A Sentence
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It is important that they do not associate classical music with a bunch of doddery old men.
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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.
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These people don't fit the danger-driver stereotype - they aren't boy racers or doddery old dears who go everywhere in third gear.
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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.
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In front of him, a doddery old geezer with a walking stick stepped out in the road.
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I saw him described in the press as a doddery old man, and someone in the last stages of senility.
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At seventy-five, Davidson did not seem remotely doddery.
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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.
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There are quite a number of doddery rural rectors or vicars in this deanery, near to Pontywen.
GOODBYE CURATE
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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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Hunched and doddery, a miracle of will over disability, the Pope began his Christmas greetings - in sixty languages.
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In the West, in Europe and America, the big economic story is a demographic one — a rapidly ageing population and a dwindling tax take with which to support our increasingly doddery citizens.
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He may come across as a bit doddery now and then, but when it comes to his one true passion the brain is as sharp as ever.
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I'd quite like to do it before I get too doddery and old to remember it all!
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How doddery old pensioners manage to keep track of that darn game, I'll never know.
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Much of this book resembles a retirement home for the doddery old clichés of magic realism.
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In the meanwhile I have to contend with someone who is no doddery dotard.
GOODBYE CURATE
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`I may look like a doddery old fool, but don't treat me like one.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Having first read Charles Portis's 1968 novel as teenagers, the Coens were allied with it and not with Henry Hathaway's doddery, miscast 1969 version, in which a major role is essayed, ruinously, by Glen Campbell.
With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth
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In the meanwhile I have to contend with someone who is no doddery dotard.
GOODBYE CURATE
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It doesn't help that most judges are rich, doddery old men who have lost touch with the real world and cannot empathise with women.
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It was regarded as a family firm - a bit slow and doddery but a caring and kind place to work.
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He's a bit slower physically but he's not doddery, so I decided not to go that way with Cecil.
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We sounded pretty good for a bunch of doddery old men.
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Henry Hathaway's 1969 "True Grit" was neither "doddery" nor "miscast" - it was perfect; and Glen Campbell's character was not "a major character" - he was there to provide a little light ballast to the tense, central relationship between Mattie and Cogburn.
With True Grit, the Coen brothers have given the western back its teeth
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‘Baby-boomers want to be presented as something other than doddery old senior citizens,’ he says.
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At the outset critics cruelly wrote him off as a doddery old bloke who lacked the drive and energy necessary to head a modern, dynamic political party.
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The difference is that now they have weak-kneed, wobbly, doddery leadership and they are falling over.
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It is fashionable to say they are swivel-eyed or doddery.
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