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
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
- asinine
- balmy
- brainless
- childish
- crazy
- dippy
- dizzy
- empty
- empty-headed
- fatuous
- featherbrained
- flighty
- foolhardy
- frivolous
- harebrained
- idiotic
- ignorant
- illogical
- immature
- imprudent
- inane
- inappropriate
- inconsistent
- irrational
- irresponsible
- ludicrous
- meaningless
- muddle-headed
- nitwitted
- nonsensical
- pointless
- preposterous
- puerile
- ridiculous
- senseless
- sheepheaded
- simple
- simpleminded
- stupid
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- unwise
- vacuous
- witless
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