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

I move as if in a dream, and am feather-brained as a child, given over, hand-bound, in thrall to a miraculous power!

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

He's one of your feather-brained, lily-livered fellows, is he?

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward

Nor did she like the atmosphere of the Whites and Rocca Marina for her feather-brained young sister. 

From Modern Broods by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

For the moment we are the bicycle, and not the feather-brained cyclist.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)