Thesaurus / flighty
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There have been any number of similar statements in recent years, claims that some people are simply too uninformed or flighty to be allowed to cast a ballot.
HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE CASTING A ‘QUALITY’ VOTEPHILIP BUMPMARCH 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLike many modern skis loaded with technology, it’s stable as hell when the sidecut is engaged but can get a little flighty when you run it straight.
LONG-TERM REVIEW: THE BEST SKIS, PERIODHEATHER SCHULTZ AND MARC PERUZZIMARCH 4, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEFitness clubs have long relied on long-term membership agreements to prevent flighty customers from abandoning their New Year’s resolutions without a financial penalty.
THESE 5 MAJOR GYM CHAINS STILL MAKE IT ANNOYINGLY HARD TO QUITJAKEMETHNOVEMBER 29, 2020FORTUNEI never looked upon Hephzibah Wallis as flighty; in fact, she was undoubtedly the steadiest of all my girls.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWeve got to live somehow, and if you get a good job stick to it, say Inone of your highty flighty notions.
CHAINSELIZABETH BAKERShe is sweetly pretty, though they say rather a flirt, and flighty in her ways.
WOOD MAGICRICHARD JEFFERIESShe was flighty and frivolous, evasive and obstinate, fond of pleasures not always innocent.
THE STONES OF PARIS IN HISTORY AND LETTERS, VOLUME I (OF 2)BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTINHe did write to Mr. Wharton, but in doing so he altogether laid aside that flighty manner which for a while had annoyed her.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPE"Take comfort," rejoined Ishtar, glad to do a kindness even for this flighty dame.
SARCHEDONG. J. (GEORGE JOHN) WHYTE-MELVILLERobert now beheld all that was in its favour, and saw nothing but flighty flimsy objections to it.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHWORDS RELATED TO FLIGHTY
- barmy
- childish
- dizzy
- empty-headed
- facetious
- featherbrained
- flighty
- flip
- flippant
- foolish
- gay
- giddy
- harebrained
- idiotic
- idle
- ill-considered
- impractical
- juvenile
- light
- light-minded
- minor
- niggling
- nonserious
- not serious
- paltry
- peripheral
- petty
- playful
- pointless
- puerile
- scatterbrained
- senseless
- shallow
- sportive
- superficial
- tongue-in-cheek
- unimportant
- unprofound
- volatile
- whimsical
- bemused
- brainless
- bubbleheaded
- capricious
- careless
- changeable
- changeful
- ditzy
- dizzy
- empty-headed
- erratic
- fickle
- flighty
- flustered
- frivolous
- gaga
- heedless
- inconstant
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- lightheaded
- punchy
- reckless
- reeling
- scatterbrained
- skittish
- slaphappy
- swimming
- thoughtless
- unbalanced
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- vacillating
- volatile
- whimsical
- whirling
- wild
- woozy
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