weathercock
Example Sentences
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No matter where we find ourselves in these stories, the author’s mind, and thus the reader’s, seems turned like a weathercock toward Homewood.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021
Harriman reacted to the New Deal like a weathercock in a gale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind these two varying expressions was a weathercock temperament.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a weathercock of taste, Walpole is more gilded than dependable.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a flagstaff in the garden, and on the roof was a gilt weathercock shaped like a telescope.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
