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- adjective unable to think straight
- adjective constantly moving about
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Examples
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Times Online Locum GP 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose - 35 mins ago
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A foreign doctor who administered a fatal overdose to a 70-year-old man seemed tired and was "dithery" and "muttering to himself" at the time, the dead man's partner told an inquest today.
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Times Online Locum GP 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose - 35 mins ago
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Times Online Locum GP 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose - 35 mins ago
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Genetic information no help yet in predicting diabetes onset, study finds German locum GP Daniel Ubani 'dithery' while giving fatal overdose, inquest told Senior Associate
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"dithery" and "muttering to himself" at the time, the dead man's partner has told an inquest.
ITN Headlines 2010
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'dithery' and was 'muttering to himself' at the time, the dead man's partner told an inquest today.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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And while we wait for Hilarie Burton to return to White Collar as Neil's squeeze — she's not in next week's episode, either (although True Blood's Joe Mangianello is a swell consolation prize) — she was clearly having a ball on Castle sending up the stereotype of a dithery sexpot of a reality diva (part Kim Kardashian, part Paris Hilton) implicated in the murder of a dog-show official.
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All that has done is provide us with a rich trove of oddball entertainment ranging from Sarah Palin's dithery dead-fish metaphors to the beetle-browed death threats of G. Gordon Liddy and the blatant racism of Pat Buchanan.
Summer Rerun 2009
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EG, as a character in AOT the wise admiral worked well, in reality was he as blind as Mac, as balls-out full on as Rommel, or dithery like Monty?
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Gold Diggers Of 1937
February 22, 2007
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My thoughts wandered in a dithery circle around the miserable couple in the upstairs bedroom. -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas
December 11, 2010