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
She could love, I knew, that feather-brained, big-hearted little friend of mine.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith
For the moment we are the bicycle, and not the feather-brained cyclist.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Mary was a feather-brained and light-hearted wife, who thought of her crowns as playthings.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
Boswell, vexed by the greater intimacy of Goldsmith with Johnson, called him a blunderer, a feather-brained person; and described his appearance in no flattering terms.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William
