feather-brained
Example Sentences
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In practice I hope that Master George and Mr Mervyn are talking tough to impress feather-brained markets so that they can win time to act less brutally.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2010
It occurred to him that possibly Marion Rose was not really feather-brained, but that the trouble was in himself, because he was getting a chronic grouch.
From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.
For the moment we are the bicycle, and not the feather-brained cyclist.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Spinoza had nothing but contempt for facile-tongued, feather-brained Utopians.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph
What a fool a man is who gets married—above all, a sailor who takes as his wife a feather-brained creature, as you are.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.
