dotard

An old dotard in shabby clothes with a million worlds behind him.

Thinking the old dotard would turn soft and give her to the lad out of pity?

Make a child and a dotard of him?

I will not step down to be the dotard chamberlain of an upstart.

Who was this dotard with the two ill-matched women?

And what right has that old dotard in the black gown to be here except that he is your friend?

'But be not astonished, if men laugh at me for a dotard.

A voice among the onlookers muttered: 'An old dotard like that?

At the last hamlet he made the mistake of speaking to an old man only to find the dotard was deaf as granite.

He'd known things were going wrong ever since that mumbling dotard had turned up and broken off his rotting tooth.

She will have a lot to learn, but she can scarcely do worse than that worthy dotard.

Then you persuade an old dotard to give you his shares, get yourself appointed to the board.

Away with the dotard; to the gaol with him!

"He died an enfeebled old dotard at five," Jane quoted dreamily.

"Nay, my lord, when you are a dotard you will die.

She watched them go, marveling that this dotard could have fathered a son whose head rose a foot and a half higher than his.

The old magician was obviously a dotard.

For some reason the question amused the smirking dotard and he giggled, his voice high-pitched like a little girl's.

The dragon was no dotard, Olive realized.

"He was ready to wed me to the first drooling dotard or prize idiot that made an offer.

Nay, foster-father, this white-bearded dotard is no mate for me.

And to lands which know Flaminius the Dotard all too well."

A child, a warmonger, and a dotard.

"Foolish dotard," growled Goodgulf later in their room at an inn.

"All things are ill" the dotard sang.