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flighty::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
| Derivation | flightiness |
flighty young girls.
Examples of flighty
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Westbrook's usual efficiency and command has been flighty since spring training.
From the stltoday.com
Is this flighty, often extravagant, pivot the right man to direct them to glory?
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He has a daughter, a flighty girl named Wei Wei, with whom he doesn't get along.
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Hall briefly visits Frost's drunken father, flighty mother, and unstable sister.
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Tapes of alluring music tempt the flighty gadabouts to make themselves at home.
From the economist.com
I don't have that attitude towards people and I'm quite flighty and disorganised.
From the metro.co.uk
It's as if our flighty teenaged bride has matured into an aware and willing wife.
From the kansas.com
The Giulietta feels solid and assured on the road rather than nervous and flighty.
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It is a flighty country, whose policies chop and change as presidents come and go.
From the economist.com
- Guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls"
- Skittish: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
- Given to unplanned, and silly ideas or actions
- Undependable or changeable hounds or scent.
- Excitable flock inclined to fly at the slightest provocation.
- Wild, jumpy, and out-of-control, quivers and struggles violently, might bellow and froth at the mouth, continuous tail flicking, defecates and urinates during processing, frantically runs the fence line and might jump when penned individually, exhibits long flight distance, and exits the chute ...
- Is unstable behavior in a chicken. And we know humans like that, too!
- (adj.): foolish; irresponsible
