feather-brained

Example Sentences

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In practice I hope that Master George and Mr Mervyn are talking tough to impress feather-brained markets so that they can win time to act less brutally.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2010

Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head.

From The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard

"Still, you see you can't, and when you go out mining with feather-brained companions must take the consequences."

From Alton of Somasco by Bindloss, Harold

And he begins with that feather-brained frivolity which will learn nothing by example.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

Let us assume that the husband neglects his wife and causes her to be jealous, not because he is in love with another woman, but because he is flirtatious, light-headed, feather-brained and inconsiderate.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by Robinson, William J.