feather-brained
Example Sentences
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In practice I hope that Master George and Mr Mervyn are talking tough to impress feather-brained markets so that they can win time to act less brutally.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
Call it feather-brained, fantastic, ridiculous, if you will, the Davidsbund has a very definite meaning, and fulfils a very noble purpose.
From A Day with Robert Schumann by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
Yet Aunt Priscilla had a curious fondness for her, which she insisted to herself was very reprehensible, since Betty was such a feather-brained girl.
From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Amanda Minnie Douglas
But you forget: I have not been accustomed to look on Miss Fanshawe in the light of a feather-brained school-girl.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
I do not think anyone,—even the most feather-brained, could be garrulous in the desert.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
