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Old & unsteady
Answer for the clue "Old & unsteady ", 7 letters:
doddery
Alternative clues for the word doddery
Word definitions for doddery in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. dodder, trembly, shaky.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail" [syn: doddering , gaga , senile ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
doddery \doddery\ adj. same as doddering[1] . Syn: doddering, shaking, tottering, tottery.
Usage examples of doddery.
She was left standing alone fifty feet off the ground with a dead microphone and a doddery old man for company.
The main problem seemed to be road accidents due to doddery old people driving cars too powerful for them.
He was a little doddery and flat-footed, but he walked reasonably well for a man of eighty-eight.
Old Oinash, for ensample, is but a doddery old time-server awaiting his pension.
She had thought doddery Guaram was the most ancient person she had known, but this wispy-haired stranger looked so frail he must be even older than Guaram.
My nan rolls her eyes that it has come to this, and brandishes her walking stick in imitation of a doddery old pensioner, which is pretty funny coming from her at this time.
Old Cooper who dealt with insurance came into the room at his doddery pace and looked at the mess with cross disgust and pinched nostrils.
Two old natives were flanking it, so doddery that they could barely notch an arrow to their bows.
Old Oinash, for ensample, is but a doddery old timeserver awaiting his pension.
The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons.