flighty

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

One insider who has been part of conversations about the chances of changing the leader says, "it's not flighty people, not just newbies without a clue, they're not idiots".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

It ought to be a great role for her but the movie is too shallow and flighty to do her justice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

“You not some happy-go-lucky kid anymore. You one grown man. You a father. No can be flighty, go off anywhere you like. You need for provide Clara with stability.”

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Big banks, for their part, tend to covet customers’ direct-deposits, sticky funds that rarely move or chase rates, while accounting for the chance other deposits are flightier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

But the central bank also warned that flightier investors such as hedge funds could amplify market stress in times of crisis, especially if they ditch bonds rapidly to unwind big bets made with borrowed money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Ms. Oates’s book has more warmth, though it’s also flabbier and flightier.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2011

In Spain, authorities have agreed to give ground on some major student concerns, but they have drawn the line at a few of the students' flightier notions.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He will shed his flightier notions as a young bird moults its down."

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. Riddle

Kimber—the flightiest, girliest Hologram, with the longest, most labor-intensive hair—only dates girls; nobody thinks that’s a problem, nor does anybody think it odd that she falls for someone with Stormer’s body type.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2015

It would encourage her to indulge her worst, flightiest, most self-absorbed tendencies.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013

This performance, which looks intelligent, does not strain the brain of even the flightiest hen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly, in the dull silence, Mrs. Colfax began asking, in her flightiest manner, about Angelica's family.

From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

But the impatient swain went off and pinned himself to the flightiest little humming-bird in all Soitgoes, and in a month was married, having a long life before him for bitterness and repentance.

From Two Christmas Celebrations by Theodore Parker