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

"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

Mona had always been considered the least feather-brained of the family, and she certainly fulfilled her trust with absolute integrity.

From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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

She was not admiring her own seemliness; far from it; she was rating and despising herself for a feather-brained waverer and good-for-nothing.

From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.