糊塗

muddled / silly / confused

variant of 糊[hu2]

muddled / paste / scorched

paste / cream

congee / making a living

to apply (paint etc) / to smear / to daub / to blot out / to scribble / to scrawl / (literary) mud / street

muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition / complete shambles / a total mess

dotard

confused / vague / indistinct / muddle-headed / mixed up / in a daze

variant of 糊裡糊塗|糊里糊涂[hu2 li5 hu2 tu2]

muddleheaded / careless

blunderer / bungler

muddled accounts / a mess of bookkeeping

confused / muddled / stupid / dumb

to pretend not to know (idiom)

to pretend to not know / to play dumb

even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment (idiom) / every man has a fool in his sleeve