flighty
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In her run-down Victorian house, she produces a literary journal, Vista, and provides lodging to four tenants: Robbie, a struggling writer; Georgina, a flighty debutante; Mina, an ambitious cinema usherette; and Saul, a wartime refugee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Undertaking a new challenge every few years can show employers you’re ambitious, but not flighty.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
As Rickey, a flighty self-starter who just can’t seem to get started, Angarano is wildly funny and also painfully familiar.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
Wrens "are very flighty," he says with a laugh.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
She pretends to be foolish, flighty, and immature.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Ms. Oates’s book has more warmth, though it’s also flabbier and flightier.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
Some flightier, more fantastic movies go heavy on the CG.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the last 20 years, while flightier musicians have run off after every new craze in jazz, swing or bebop, Wayne King has stuck tenaciously to the waltz.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trade-off is a flightier, more mercurial and more tabloid pop culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is no flightier than you are this minute.
From Jewel by Burnham, Clara Louise
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
To be fêted and toasted and to make a speech in Drury Lane Theatre would not have entered into my flightiest conceptions, if I had made out a programme beforehand.
From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
It was before I moved over from South side, but Mrs. Hikes says she had the flightiest clothes when he was courtin' her.
From A Village Ophelia and Other Stories by Aldrich, Anne Reeve
Vocabulary lists containing flighty
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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