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Definition of doddery in English: dodderyadjective ˈdɒd(ə)riˈdɑd(ə)ri Slow and unsteady in movement because of weakness in old age. （因年老体虚）行动迟缓的；不稳的 he's a bit doddery on his legs and doesn't get about much Example sentencesExamples - I'd quite like to do it before I get too doddery and old to remember it all!
- It is important that they do not associate classical music with a bunch of doddery old men.
- At seventy-five, Davidson did not seem remotely doddery.
- In front of him, a doddery old geezer with a walking stick stepped out in the road.
- It was regarded as a family firm - a bit slow and doddery but a caring and kind place to work.
- How doddery old pensioners manage to keep track of that darn game, I'll never know.
- I saw him described in the press as a doddery old man, and someone in the last stages of senility.
- We sounded pretty good for a bunch of doddery old men.
- 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.
- 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.
- Much of this book resembles a retirement home for the doddery old clichés of magic realism.
- 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.
- 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.
- ‘Baby-boomers want to be presented as something other than doddery old senior citizens,’ he says.
- These people don't fit the danger-driver stereotype - they aren't boy racers or doddery old dears who go everywhere in third gear.
- 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.
- Hunched and doddery, a miracle of will over disability, the Pope began his Christmas greetings - in sixty languages.
- He's a bit slower physically but he's not doddery, so I decided not to go that way with Cecil.
- The difference is that now they have weak-kneed, wobbly, doddery leadership and they are falling over.
- 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.
Synonyms tottering, tottery, teetering, doddering, staggering, shuffling, shambling, faltering, shaking, shaky, unsteady, wobbly, wobbling, trembling, trembly, quivering
Derivativesnoun He's had it delivered already, and is well pleased with the whole set up (allowing me to prove I'm still useful despite the onset of dodderiness, I hope). Example sentencesExamples - Far from being nubile and beauteous, most clients are in various stages of dodderiness, shuffling around in white bathrobes between one appointment and the next.
Definition of doddery in US English: dodderyadjectiveˈdɑd(ə)riˈdäd(ə)rē Slow and unsteady in movement because of weakness in old age. （因年老体虚）行动迟缓的；不稳的 he's a bit doddery on his legs and doesn't get about much Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 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.
- At seventy-five, Davidson did not seem remotely doddery.
- How doddery old pensioners manage to keep track of that darn game, I'll never know.
- 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.
- The difference is that now they have weak-kneed, wobbly, doddery leadership and they are falling over.
- I'd quite like to do it before I get too doddery and old to remember it all!
- 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.
- These people don't fit the danger-driver stereotype - they aren't boy racers or doddery old dears who go everywhere in third gear.
- In front of him, a doddery old geezer with a walking stick stepped out in the road.
- Much of this book resembles a retirement home for the doddery old clichés of magic realism.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hunched and doddery, a miracle of will over disability, the Pope began his Christmas greetings - in sixty languages.
- He's a bit slower physically but he's not doddery, so I decided not to go that way with Cecil.
- It was regarded as a family firm - a bit slow and doddery but a caring and kind place to work.
- It is important that they do not associate classical music with a bunch of doddery old men.
- ‘Baby-boomers want to be presented as something other than doddery old senior citizens,’ he says.
- We sounded pretty good for a bunch of doddery old men.
- I saw him described in the press as a doddery old man, and someone in the last stages of senility.
Synonyms tottering, tottery, teetering, doddering, staggering, shuffling, shambling, faltering, shaking, shaky, unsteady, wobbly, wobbling, trembling, trembly, quivering
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