flighty
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Rangers, under McInnes, have added beef and leadership, doughty characters rather than the flighty articles they have been attracted to for so long.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
A smile thrown in her direction during a parade honoring a visiting king and his princess daughter, a marvelously flighty Miriam Hopkins, almost causes an international incident after the gesture is misinterpreted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Undertaking a new challenge every few years can show employers you’re ambitious, but not flighty.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
But it also turns him into a lonely, rigidly neoclassicist oddball who scorns his professors, prefers books to his flighty peers and still can’t seem to take care of himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
And lo and behold, when Maggie was born, Sharon the Star became a doting, if somewhat flighty, grandmother.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
But the central bank also warned that flightier investors such as hedge funds could amplify market stress in times of crisis, especially if they ditch bonds rapidly to unwind big bets made with borrowed money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Ms. Oates’s book has more warmth, though it’s also flabbier and flightier.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
Some flightier, more fantastic movies go heavy on the CG.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trade-off is a flightier, more mercurial and more tabloid pop culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is no flightier than you are this minute.
From Jewel by Clara Louise Burnham
Kimber—the flightiest, girliest Hologram, with the longest, most labor-intensive hair—only dates girls; nobody thinks that’s a problem, nor does anybody think it odd that she falls for someone with Stormer’s body type.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2015
It would encourage her to indulge her worst, flightiest, most self-absorbed tendencies.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013
This performance, which looks intelligent, does not strain the brain of even the flightiest hen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly, in the dull silence, Mrs. Colfax began asking, in her flightiest manner, about Angelica's family.
From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
To be fêted and toasted and to make a speech in Drury Lane Theatre would not have entered into my flightiest conceptions, if I had made out a programme beforehand.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Vocabulary lists containing flighty
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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