Jack Germond

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

American Journalist

Felix Dennis

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

British Publisher

Pearl S. Buck

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

American Novelist

Ian McElhinney

It's strange to be getting into your dotage and suddenly discovering that you have a fanbase.

Irish Actor

The term 'dotage' is not commonly used in modern language and may sound outdated.

Archaic Usage

'Dotage' often implies a negative view of elderly weakness, so use it with sensitivity.

Negative Connotation

Different cultures view aging differently; 'dotage' may have various interpretations.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Dotage' can carry an emotional impact, implying pity or humor when referring to the elderly.

Emotional Impact

Use 'dotage' when describing behavior that seems out of character due to aging.

Use in Context

 We continue to make vital contributions to society after menopause. It's not your dotage. Your worth has nothing to do with your ovaries. So let's say you're in the menopause transition. What are the best things you can do? If you're suffering, there's almost always some kind of help.

What really happens to...

 this fellow come to eke out their days until they are big and strong enough to take a pod or get into a pod all where old fellows come to retire and spend their dotage in peace in amongst the egyptian geese