scatty
Example Sentences
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"If Dan and Sara are the mum and dad, I'm the scatty teenager. I'm basically the person who posts memes and funny stuff into the group."
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021
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
She strikes me as a woman who gets things done, steelier than the quirky, slightly scatty figure she has often portrayed on screen.
From The Guardian • Jan. 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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.