That I'm either as big a liar as he says you are or a fool--a doddering fool.
I find I have not space here to reproduce these several mud broadsides, which really are more valuable as evidence of the dodderingimbecility and fatuous weakness of the so-called great men of finance than interesting or informative.
I must have a council, too--not doddering old men, but others that we shall select.
He bore himself with the dignity of a born ruler, and yet his very kindliness of aspect and the dodderinggravity of his aged councilors, seemed to explain at once most of the trouble that now confronted him.
For the doddering old councilors of the late king I substituted men whom I selected from among those of the city's prominent business men who cared to serve.
It is manifested in all her references to humanity, from the infant to doddering age; and her compositions are filled with appeals for the application of love to the relations between man and man.
The hand of the Princess Ermaline is sought by Prince Charlie, a doddering old rake, whom she detests, but whom for reasons of state she may be compelled to accept.
You doddering idiots, I'd shoot your heads off for two bits I Try to rob a countryman, will you?
Say, you doddering old fool, what do you think this is--a night school?
I don't mind her treating me as if I was a doddering old gentleman so long as she keeps Gilbert off.
Young Oldershaw and the doddering Hosack measure up to your standard.
Ey, and he called me 'doddering fool;' but look at him now!
O-Tar called me 'doddering fool' and I would face worse dangers than lie in the forbidden chambers of O-Mai to know it if he does not visit the chamber of O-Mai.
Well do I recall that day that I--" "Peace, doddering fool!
You babble like the poor, doddering imbecile you appear--my name is Haredale!
Children like this girl are amusing, but only unsophisticated boys and doddering old men fall in love with them.
But there's no use shilly-shallying and doddering with people who ask questions and favors they have no right to ask.
For all Old Ham was so shrewd at the Yards, he was one of those fellows who begin losing their common-sense at the office door, and who reach homedoddering and blithering.
And that doddering old idiot daren't throw him out, but slinks off.
My boy,' said a doddering Brooklynite, 'the nation has turned her face westward.
My father's doddering Brooklynites seemed wonderful neighbors to his young wife.
So worthy a missionary deserved well at the hands of Bahadur Shah, and the doddering old king at once made him a subahdar and gave him for residence the house which had just been purged of the defiling presence of an infidel Feringhi.
While the doddering old king was wrestling with his metres, the commander-in-chief, true to the compact made the previous night, was having an interview with Rahmut Khan.
I suppose; but we'll be doddering idiots some day, too.
I think so; he's a doddering nuisance they tell me.
I did not want to go and see a political widow, and a captain who collected apes; I wanted to hear what had brought this dear, doddering old vicar into relation with immediate perils.
His power of dodging, leaping, and fighting would have been amazing in a lad of seventeen, and in this doddering old vicar looked like a sort of farcical fairy-tale.
Stacey had described the man as a doddering old fogy, if this were really Hoagland, or really the same man that Stacey met.
The answer was hidden behind the heavy mahogany door at 7111 Bridge Street, despite the placid appearance of a man retired from business, his elderly wife, and doddering manservant.
One servant, a doddering old fogy who must have been the owner's father's gentleman's gentleman.
Gloria knows all about your natural male concupiscence; and 'Ginny will know you as a doddering old man by the time she discovers that you can tell a man from a woman without looking at their clothing.
In a second I would have exchanged my youth for the position of this doddering old nobleman who spat blood into a napkin.
If I have a doddering husband, who at the same time lost his breeches and his papers, I shall make amends for his folly.
You'll laugh at all these vowings and handstrikings, I dare say, and protest there was a deal of such fustian heroics in your doddering old chronicler's day.
The little jade would have warned him if she had known; but it is known only to the doddering old miser and me, and the girl is safe in her bed-room.
He went before me without a word, out of the little den and up the broad stair, doddering like a man grown ten years older in a breath, and catching at the balustrade to steady himself as we ascended.
Literature is concerned, a mere colossal, kindly, doddering Old Age Pension from a few gentlemen in Stockholm.
Should he deny it to the Negro; his proudest and most vaunted principle would prove to be a doddering lie; a shimmering evanescence.
The old man did nothing unbecoming to his caste, but he stood doddering and longed to die in place of that beautiful youth.
Crofts protested in a doddering collapse, and vanished like a ghost at cockcrow.
Ted blurted out, "You said in your letter that you're a doddering old man.
I do not want your camp, but do you want to guide a dodderingold man?
She became deeply enamoured of a splendid, earnest young chap named Braden Thorpe, grandson of the wealthy and doddering Templeton Thorpe, and recognised as his sole heir.
You do not for an instant suspect that I love this dodderingold man, do you?
Immensely do I understand the need of younger men to take refuge from it in doing, for all they are worth--to be old and doddering now is for a male person not at all glorious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doddering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
