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

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 Douglas, Amanda Minnie

"Just the sort of feather-brained idea that would occur to a novelist," he said.

From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

He had seen feather-brained fortune-seekers gambling hopelessly with fate, suffering untold hardships for half the pay they could have gained from "honest labor."

From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)

For the moment we are the bicycle, and not the feather-brained cyclist.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)