doddery

They do not suffer from the sort of psychological inflexibility that characterizes the doddery old men of the Commission, who enter the future still clutching the ideas of their youth.
Elles n'ont pas cette espèce de psychorigidité qui caractérise la Commission européenne, comme les vieux messieurs cacochymes, qui rentrent dans le futur en n'abandonnant pas les idées de leur jeunesse.
The actor performed a doddery walk.
L'acteur a exécuté une démarche chancelante.
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