scatterbrain
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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
“I’m not the scatterbrain I was. You may trust me. I’m sober and sensible enough for anyone’s confidante now.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Pick something for the Surge to focus on, you scatterbrains.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
"Is it not extraordinary, in a country like ours, educated, prosperous, and fairly happy, that doctrines of this kind should be taught by learned men as well as scatterbrains?"
From Time Magazine Archive
My young scatterbrains find it hard to understand that the beast which was so precious two days ago is now of no value whatever.
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Come with me, or traipse back with that scatterbrains.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
A weeding-out takes place in my crowd of scatterbrains.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
