scatterbrain

Example Sentences

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The recommendation says she was "a bit scatters" - a scatterbrain, in other words.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

The youngest is something of a scatterbrain, picking up a piece of string here, a dead bird there.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2016

Our personalities meet in the middle with a balance of caprice and control: We play against type when it comes to writing, as the poet is the taskmaster and the military officer is the scatterbrain.

From Salon • May 25, 2015

I remember her as unassuming, unaffected, and bright, but mostly I remember that she paid and, wary of her accountant chiding her as a scatterbrain, tucked the receipt away in a vintage purse.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2011

Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan