addle

the film is addle-brained.

The object is to addle and not to elucidate.

addle one's brain over figures

Eggs addle quickly in hot weather.

problems that addle my brain;

being in love must have addled your brain.

He has addled his head with reading and writing all day long.

Journo to Addled Man (not direct quotes): "With all these late-game losses are you concerned that your guys won't have the confidence to finish close games in the playoffs?"

By 2003 he was an uninsurable serial relapser famous for being pulled out of hotels or other people's homes in an addled, disheveled state.

addle, badger, bait, bemused, beset, circumvent, confound, derange, discombobulated, discomfit, disconcert, disquiet, distraught, faze, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perturb.

That scar upon his forehead has not addled his brains.

They've addled his brain and yellowed his teeth.

My brother taught me where to hit a person's chin, so as to addle them.

It addles women's brains. For your information, I was in England, not a month ago, and I'll tell you this.

The distilled liquor of addle eggs.

Unfortunately, the judge was an addle man.

The eugenicists who, addled by bogus statistics, advocated forced sterilisations are the grisliest example.

These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle and what may be destroyed by vermin, will produce at least 250 chickens.

" He has clearly reacted to a poorly performed Imperius Curse, " said Scrimgeour. " It's addled his brains, but he could still be dangerous."

It was a feathered riddle; a mystery hatched out of an egg, and just as mysterious as if the egg had been addle!