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flighty

[flahy-tee] / ˈflaɪ ti /


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In her run-down Victorian house, she produces a literary journal, Vista, and provides lodging to four tenants: Robbie, a struggling writer; Georgina, a flighty debutante; Mina, an ambitious cinema usherette; and Saul, a wartime refugee.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 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

As Rickey, a flighty self-starter who just can’t seem to get started, Angarano is wildly funny and also painfully familiar.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2025

She pretends to be foolish, flighty, and immature.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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