flibbertigibbet
Example Sentences
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As Orlando, Duke of Oxford and the spy agency’s founder, Fiennes might read more cuddly than studly, but he lends a surprising gravitas to this flibbertigibbet feature.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021
That left Jonathan with lifelong feelings of guilt, which led him on several occasions to announce that he was abandoning what he once called “this footling flibbertigibbet world of theater.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019
McKinnon is given the same weirdo role she played in Ghostbusters and Rough Night—the fast-thinking, overconfident flibbertigibbet who seems to have one foot in our universe and the other somewhere else.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 2018
Laura is a bit of a flibbertigibbet with a poor grasp of colloquial expressions.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2017
The authors seem to be saying, “I couldn’t think of a more dignified way of putting this, but please don’t think I’m a flibbertigibbet who talks this way; I really am a serious scholar.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
