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

I do not think anyone,—even the most feather-brained, could be garrulous in the desert.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Spinoza had nothing but contempt for facile-tongued, feather-brained Utopians.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

Did he then regard her as a feather-brained rattle? a forward school girl, of whose prattle he was already weary, and whom he adjudged incapable of entering into, or appreciating, intellectual conversation?

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

Let us assume that the husband neglects his wife and causes her to be jealous, not because he is in love with another woman, but because he is flirtatious, light-headed, feather-brained and inconsiderate.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by Robinson, William J.