dingbat
Example Sentences
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The property, made up of multiple lots, currently houses 10 bungalows, five dingbat apartments, a single-family home and 6-foot-tall weeds growing next to the burned-out structures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Then there was Miranda’s transformation from pragmatic career woman to lovesick dingbat, and the glaring absence of Samantha, a character who now exists solely via text message, like a saucy phantom trapped inside Carrie’s phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Coco Jones makes the most of remaking Hilary as an upbeat self-assured culinary influencer instead of a dingbat, while Akira Jolie Akbar channels Ashley's essential lovability.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022
She achieved a reluctant fame from the air disaster, thanks to a cheesy Italian biopic in 1974, “Miracles Still Happen,” in which the teenage Dr. Diller is portrayed as a hysterical dingbat.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
Whatever was not a hootin'-annie was a dingbat, and treated accordingly.
From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
