flighty
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Rangers, under McInnes, have added beef and leadership, doughty characters rather than the flighty articles they have been attracted to for so long.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
He wasn’t a crazed football fan or a flighty 30-something bachelor, but an outdoorsman who loved mountain biking away from the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
Undertaking a new challenge every few years can show employers you’re ambitious, but not flighty.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
Tristán, vain and flighty, can hardly concentrate on anything but his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
Daughter of the Chief’s flighty ex-wife, come home at last.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
But the central bank also warned that flightier investors such as hedge funds could amplify market stress in times of crisis, especially if they ditch bonds rapidly to unwind big bets made with borrowed money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Ms. Oates’s book has more warmth, though it’s also flabbier and flightier.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
In Spain, authorities have agreed to give ground on some major student concerns, but they have drawn the line at a few of the students' flightier notions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trade-off is a flightier, more mercurial and more tabloid pop culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Madame, of a flightier substance notwithstanding her business talents, waved aside the remark as insignificant and without bearing upon her immediate purpose.
From Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Kimber—the flightiest, girliest Hologram, with the longest, most labor-intensive hair—only dates girls; nobody thinks that’s a problem, nor does anybody think it odd that she falls for someone with Stormer’s body type.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2015
It would encourage her to indulge her worst, flightiest, most self-absorbed tendencies.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013
This performance, which looks intelligent, does not strain the brain of even the flightiest hen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last one they had was, and his wife was the silliest, flightiest little thing I ever saw.
From Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
To his Majesty this was merely the voice of Max at his flightiest.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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