Definition of "addle-pated" [addle-pated]

• Same as addle-headed.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "At such moments I find it well to turn to the testimony of other men to prove to myself that I am not becoming over-wrought and addle-pated."
• "“She surely deserves it all,” Graham murmured, although vaguely hurt in that the addle-pated, alphabet-obsessed, epicurean anarchist of an Irishman who gloried in being a loafer and a pensioner should even mildly be in love with the Little Lady."
• "Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed."