feather-brained
Example Sentences
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In practice I hope that Master George and Mr Mervyn are talking tough to impress feather-brained markets so that they can win time to act less brutally.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
He will just think me a feather-brained flirt.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Call it feather-brained, fantastic, ridiculous, if you will, the Davidsbund has a very definite meaning, and fulfils a very noble purpose.
From A Day with Robert Schumann by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
Grantly and Buz Ffolliot had each recognised and admired that quality in him, and it is possible that he had vaguely discerned a kindred reticence in these feather-brained boys.
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
Boswell, vexed by the greater intimacy of Goldsmith with Johnson, called him a blunderer, a feather-brained person; and described his appearance in no flattering terms.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black
