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The characters that Hader developed, notably the doddery news correspondent Herb Welch and the whispery night-club expert Stefon, all stank at their jobs.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

He’s Alfred, Ben Affleck’s butler – a more competent and acid helpmeet than Michael Caine’s doddery codger.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2016

Mr Barrow bounded over, offered a comic tale about a civil-war unit from his home county manned by doddery old men, then thanked the scowling Confederates for showing up.

From Economist • Oct. 2, 2014

Entertainingly played by Richard Bremmer, Zeus is presented in the play’s opening moments as a doddery old hobo, hawking souvenirs from the base of Mount Olympus.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2014

He was a little doddery and flat-footed, but he walked reasonably well for a man of eighty-eight.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan