flighty
Example Sentences
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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
One insider who has been part of conversations about the chances of changing the leader says, "it's not flighty people, not just newbies without a clue, they're not idiots".
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
Tristán, vain and flighty, can hardly concentrate on anything but his career.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2023
She pretends to be foolish, flighty, and immature.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing flighty
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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