addle-brained

comparative more addle-brained · superlative most addle-brained

1. Muddled in thought or mind; foolish; stupid.

   The woman must be addle-brained from lack of sleep.

   2013, Patty Smith Hall, The Doctor's Bride, Harlequin, →ISBN

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   She could tell him about Rusty, about the rush wedding, but then she'd have to admit what an addle-brained twit she'd been, running off without a thought or a prayer to marry a man for no reason other than that he'd asked her to.

   2003, Loree Lough, An Accidental Hero, Steeple Hill Books, →ISBN

   “You know,” Collier said, “this is exactly the sort of fuzzy, addle-brained thinking that gives birth to conspiracy theories. […]

   2005, Mike Lawson, The Inside Ring, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 236