What does palsied mean?
Palsied means Afflicted with palsy..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Afflicted with palsy..
[“]You had another of your vacillating consultations with your councillors. Fine advisers.” With infinite scorn, “A herd of palsied purblind idiots hugging their sterile profits close to their sunken chests in the face of my father’s displeasure.”
Then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him / Like a distorted mouth that splits its rim / Gaping at death, and dies while it recoils.
Use palsied when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Palsied means Afflicted with palsy..
Common synonyms include unsteady.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[“]You had another of your vacillating consultations with your councillors. Fine advisers.” With infinite scorn, “A herd of palsied purblind idiots hugging their sterile profits close to their sunken chests in the face of my father’s displeasure.”
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