in (one's) dotage

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in (one's) dotage

In a state of senility or mental decline due to old age. My grandfather in his dotage has lately had trouble remembering our names. Just because we are in our 70s doesn't mean we are in our dotage! You'd best treat your children well, for it is they who will look after you when you're in your dotage.
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The contemptuously respectful attitude of the younger men to the old man in his dotage was expressed in the highest degree by the behavior of Chichagov, who knew of the accusations that were being directed against Kutuzov.
But, no, no; Porthos is not yet an invalid, nor is Aramis in his dotage. The one with his arm, the other with his imagination, will find work for his majesty's soldiers.
"But he made no secret that he expected in his dotage the money he spent on them would be repaid.
The only vaguely controversial thing about McCartney in his dotage is his fondness for wearing trainers with a suit.
But the royal, who has been the Queen's constant public companion for more than 60 years, stressed how he was "winding down" and looking forward to enjoying himself in his dotage. The royal even said his memory was going and, in his outspoken style, how he favoured discrimination against older people as "you go downhill" in later life.
Conscious of the fairly sizeable generation gap between him and his trendier younger hosts, Bazza admitted he might not be as cutting edge as their audience were used to and, moreover, that he was going a bit deaf in his dotage.
That a brave warrior who ignored his own safety to save another can later be denied vital medical treatment in his dotage is an outrage.
In fact, Wellington was Irish-born and, as his death-mask shows, in his dotage. Sinnema (English, U.
Now seventy-six, he is increasingly viewed as a has-been religious right leader in his dotage, prone to say bizarre and offensive things.
In his dotage, Crowley even managed to convince himself that no less an avatar of human liberty than Adolf Hitler had been inspired by his writings.
"And if Charles is going to be King, it would be ideal if he were before he is in his dotage."