Example sentences for: dotty

How can you use “dotty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The richness of language, image, and imagination all contrast with her austerities and stringencies: Nothing could be further from the beloved middlebrow notion of Dickinson as a charmingly dotty, fey spinster or wistful girl, all eccentricity and repression.

  • Of course Carr was quite dotty, and neutral does not mean pacific, as John McPhee makes clear in La Place de la Concorde Suisse , his book on the Swiss army, our third bit of alpine lore: Their armed neutrality includes universal military training.

  • But in the partisan 1930s, it was dismissed as dotty and vague.

  • A few hundred boisterous Texans--mostly men, middle-aged or above, with a fair number of angry young rednecks and dotty old women--filled the cramped banquet room of a run-down motor lodge in "downtown" Kilgore.

  • They'd know him as the dotty character actor from mass-appeal films like The Princess Bride and Clueless --a guy who, unlike the earnest playwright Shawn, appears to have stopped taking anything in life seriously, least of all himself.


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