raddled
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of raddled
C17: from raddle ²
Example Sentences
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I used to walk past the raddled marquee of the shuttered Linda Lea Japanese Films theater on Main Street near skid row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
Her heartbreaking trust and naivety in his abilities and the power of literature itself causes Caine’s raddled old don to question himself and fall in love with her.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2020
The whimsy can become a overpowering, though the neurotic monologues have the sense of being written with fingernails bitten to the quick: "I am a little worn out, raddled, squashed, downtrodden, shot full of holes."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2013
Nicole Kidman's turn in The Paperboy, which saw her almost unrecognisable as the raddled jailhouse fiancée of a death-row inmate, has arrived from nowhere for a best supporting actress nomination.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012
Guenever had lost her raddled look, and sat accepting the clothes which were recommended for her, without fuss.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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