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
You’re a silly, young goose, and as feather-brained as he is.
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn
What a fool a man is who gets married—above all, a sailor who takes as his wife a feather-brained creature, as you are.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
But he consoled himself with the reflection that to-morrow it would all be over for ever, and he would take leave for good of this feather-brained lady, and would forget all this rotten idiocy!…
From The Torrents of Spring by Constance Garnett
Now go quickly, for rather would I die than live like the feather-brained blue jay.”
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
