flighty

Example Sentences

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A smile thrown in her direction during a parade honoring a visiting king and his princess daughter, a marvelously flighty Miriam Hopkins, almost causes an international incident after the gesture is misinterpreted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Undertaking a new challenge every few years can show employers you’re ambitious, but not flighty.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 22, 2025

But it also turns him into a lonely, rigidly neoclassicist oddball who scorns his professors, prefers books to his flighty peers and still can’t seem to take care of himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

Wrens "are very flighty," he says with a laugh.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024

Pumpkin was amiable to every horse he met and became a surrogate parent to the flighty ones.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand