adjective
- characteristic of or resembling a dotard; showing the weakness, feebleness, or senility associated with extreme old age
Usage: archaic or literary; often used disparagingly
Examples
- The old king's dotardly behavior made the court question his fitness to rule.
- His dotardly movements and confused speech worried his family.
- The character's dotardly decline was portrayed with both humor and pathos.
- She dismissed his dotardly rambling as the product of age and illness.