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
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
“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Big banks, for their part, tend to covet customers’ direct-deposits, sticky funds that rarely move or chase rates, while accounting for the chance other deposits are flightier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
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 Clara Louise Burnham
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
She was, therefore, at her flightiest, and greeted Joan with delight.
From The Shield of Silence by George Loughridge
But the impatient swain went off and pinned himself to the flightiest little humming-bird in all Soitgoes, and in a month was married, having a long life before him for bitterness and repentance.
From Two Christmas Celebrations by Theodore Parker
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