flightiness

Example Sentences

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If Lizzy is the tensely focused A-brain in “Showing Up,” then the more easygoing B-brain would be Jo, whom Chau plays with a mellow flightiness that frequently brings out Lizzy’s frustration.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2022

She is on the lookout for any sign of giggly flightiness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2020

Nick accepts Mabel’s flightiness, but he frets over whether others do — with some cause.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2020

Expat carries with it the sense of choice, but also a whiff of flightiness and dilatancy, the idea that you’ve rejected the country of your birth for reasons of lifestyle rather than need.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2014

With the secret and implacable labor of a small ant she predisposed the women of the village against the flightiness of their husbands, who were already preparing for the move.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez