senile

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Recent Examples of senile Don Quixote himself is too often a senile dodderer; Daniel Rubin was creaky in body but youthfully quixotic in spirit. Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023 But Benjamin Smith, a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick in Britain, said the tweet could further fuel ongoing rumors that López Obrador, 69, is senile or otherwise unfit to govern. Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023 In the Kremlin’s propaganda, Biden is now invariably portrayed as senile, sleepy and out of touch. David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023 Trump regularly claimed during the 2020 campaign that Biden was senile. Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2022 See All Example Sentences for senile
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senile
Adjective
  • Authorities were working to identify some of the victims, most of whom were elderly women.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2025
  • Owners vow new appeal in case of CT dog that killed an elderly woman Six-year court battle over the dog that killed an elderly woman is on track to continue even as total expenses run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    Diana Urban, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Of course, the new standard will be backward-compatible with Wi-Fi 6 devices, as well as older Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) ones.
    Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • Applicants must be 6 years or older as of the beginning of Oct. 4 to participate.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • The senior first baseman finally connected on his first homer of the season Thursday against Lake Park.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • That said, anti-Tesla sentiment has been growing due to CEO Elon Musk's involvement with the Trump administration as senior advisor to the president.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 May 2025

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“Senile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senile. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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