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For another thing, her mother is played by Jane Krakowski, with a dottiness that can curdle into malice, as she badgers her older daughter about getting married and moving out.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2019

So a ticking clock inspires “The Pit and the Pendulum,” a once beloved pet becomes the horror of “The Black Cat,” his foster mother’s dottiness calls forth “The Imp of the Perverse.”

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2015

That's Dead Cat Bounce in a nutshell – swaggering cock-rock undercut by dottiness and bathos.

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2010

Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, maybe John Cleese -- that's what people like in British films, the dottiness.

From Reuters • May 18, 2010

"Why should all England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness?"

From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)