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Doddering 1100 Words You Need

Doddering 1100 Words You Need

/ˈdɒd.ər.i/ (adj)

physically weak and shaking because of old age, doddery, feeble, walking unsteadily, tottering, teetering, wobbling, staggering

The reaction was not quite what the president was seeking. In repeatedly bringing up his cognitive test in recent weeks, he has been trying to bolster his strategy of questioning the mental acuity of his presumptive Democratic presidential opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., whom he has portrayed as a doddering and senile old man propped up by his staff.

But in doing so, the president who has called himself a “very stable genius” reinforced concerns about his own capacity, leaving voters who are already confronting the oldest matchup of presidential candidates in American history to decide which septuagenarian is still with it — Mr. Trump at 74 or Mr. Biden at 77.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/

Antonym: steady, robust

Adverb: dodderingly

Farsi: پیر، علیل، کودن


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