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How to pronounce scatty in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained
Type Words
Synonyms absent, absentminded, abstracted


the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence.

Examples of scatty

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But then we would all be as gullible and as scatty as the Tories'Lib Dem stooges.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
They may be scatty, unrealistic and clumsy, hopeless with money and unreliable.
From the en.wikipedia.org
My experience with a rather scatty older relative should have been a one-off.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
My mum used to call me scatty and a flibbertigibbet because I could never sit still.
From the express.co.uk
Lucy Silchester is a scatty translator living in a grotty Dublin flat.
From the express.co.uk
The first inkling of trouble was when Liz Oldershaw became uncharacteristically scatty.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
She was scatty but on court became a different kind of person.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The guys and dolls at his scatty apartment gig look swell though.
From the hecklerspray.com
She's disciplined about work but scatty about possessions.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Rattlebrained: lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott
  • Absent: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
  • Scatterbrained; flighty
  • Thoughtless; frivolous; silly; foolish.