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
Swinton is almost unrecognisable in Maybury’s Francis Bacon biopic, propping up the bar as the raddled Muriel Belcher, owner of the Colony Room and a key Soho face.
From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2020
But it’s not on our own account that we, the raddled middle-aged, deride Moix and his bogus body fascism.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2019
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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