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Wanting to do so at the expense of the 80% of the population that needs a car is addle-brained.

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Quick take

mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"

verb

become rotten; "addled eggs"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for addle.

verb

mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"

verb

become rotten; "addled eggs"

Example sentences

Wanting to do so at the expense of the 80% of the population that needs a car is addle-brained.

You have to have a pretty addled mind in order to find an obvious prank such as this "terrifying.

It he's being quoted correctly, he sounds addle-headed.

Just as most FPS games have no male characters who aren't steroid-addled loons and/or cannon fodder.

I don't need to google for charts to know that you're regurgitating an addle-pated neocon talking point.

Usually, people who use "autistic" as a pejorative really mean "clueless," or worse, "addle-brained.

It's like public nudity: it sounds cool when you're a hormone-addled teenager, but then you realize that most people's bodies aren't a nice sight at all.

One of the most famous examples of this is that Edison's mother pulled him out of school and homeschooled him after the teacher pronounced him addle-brained.

Bleary, burned-out, sleep-deprived, stimulant-addled engineers do not produce decent code no matter how many hours you make them stay at their desks.

And yet, we didn't live in some apocalyptic wasteland with drug addled zombies roaming the land, we had a very modern, progressive, civilized society.

It seems rather unfair that previous experience as an addle-brained 8 year making a Pokemon or snowboarding website should have seeded such a relative advantage.