scatty

Example Sentences

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"I, quite frankly, was probably the most scatty teenager you've ever known," says Stacey.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

Thatcher, despite her reputation for knowing her own mind, was surprisingly fragile in her confidence and scatty in her convictions.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2019

I was expecting Andy, because of his fame, to be pretentious, but he was actually quite funny and scatty.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2018

Big Pig is loyal, sensible and stately, whereas Little Pig is scatty, selfish and lazy.

From Economist • Jul. 27, 2017

Then plan after plan started leaping through my head, like a family of scatty rabbits.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath