scatterbrain
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The recommendation says she was "a bit scatters" - a scatterbrain, in other words.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
The youngest is something of a scatterbrain, picking up a piece of string here, a dead bird there.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2016
Our personalities meet in the middle with a balance of caprice and control: We play against type when it comes to writing, as the poet is the taskmaster and the military officer is the scatterbrain.
From Salon ● May 25, 2015
I remember her as unassuming, unaffected, and bright, but mostly I remember that she paid and, wary of her accountant chiding her as a scatterbrain, tucked the receipt away in a vintage purse.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2011
She struck me as so comical, that silly little scatterbrain!
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Pick something for the Surge to focus on, you scatterbrains.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
"Is it not extraordinary, in a country like ours, educated, prosperous, and fairly happy, that doctrines of this kind should be taught by learned men as well as scatterbrains?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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Come with me, or traipse back with that scatterbrains.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
A weeding-out takes place in my crowd of scatterbrains.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The mind that is fed upon a diet of morning and evening newspapers, mainly or solely, will become flabby, uncertain, illogical, frivolous, and, in fact, little better than a scatterbrains.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Ainsworth Rand Spofford