dotty
adjective
crazy or eccentric.
dottiness
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a word derived from
dotty.
Example Sentences
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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
Betty Buckley, whom I last saw in Promises, Promises half a lifetime ago, lends the heroine the right air of dreamy dottiness, as if still inhabiting the Paris of the Belle Epoque.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
That's Dead Cat Bounce in a nutshell – swaggering cock-rock undercut by dottiness and bathos.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2010
"Why should all England have gone dotty on the mere subject of dottiness?"
From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
