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

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

She was not admiring her own seemliness; far from it; she was rating and despising herself for a feather-brained waverer and good-for-nothing.

From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"You won't, I daresay, but," and he threw a glance at the other two, "those feather-brained creatures——" "Oh, we're all right."

From Leonore Stubbs by Walford, L. B.

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 Byron, May Clarissa Gillington