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adjective

Flighty adj.

Fleeting; swift; transient. "The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it."

Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious. "Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind." "A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast."

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Etymology of 'Flighty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flighty" Quotes from Famous Books

... opinions should be marked, "Subject to change without notice." We cannot all indulge ourselves in the complacency of the maiden lady who gave her age year after year as twenty-seven, because she said she was not one of these flighty things who say "one thing to-day ...

— The Next of Kin - Those who Wait and Wonder • Nellie L. McClung

... dear. A very proper dislike to the flighty behaviour of the girls of the present day. As he tells me, he feels it ...

— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson

... had gone back to her hammock and was lying with one arm thrown up across the cushion, her face concealed behind it. She, too, felt miserably misunderstood. Flighty she was, spoiled and impulsive, but beneath it all she had her father's practical strain of hard sense. Mary V had grown older in the past three days. She had faced some bitter possibilities and had done a good deal of sober thinking. She felt now that Johnny was ...

— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... Wawa; 'tay baby!" she would stop below at Mrs. Hoffstott's door to beg, almost with tears, that she would look after things a little, and not let flighty Molly neglect the child; which the good woman was always ready to do. Those were anxious days, which even the madame's and Mrs. Macon's kindness could not ...

— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry

... on as it began that day. Not once a day, and sometimes not once in twenty days, did any human being speak to him. The village baker would not sell him bread; his groceries he had to buy from the neighbouring parishes, for the grocer's flighty wife called for the constable when he entered the bake-shop of Pontiac. He had to bake his own bread, and do his own cooking, washing, cleaning, and gardening. His hair grew long and his clothes became shabbier. At last, when he needed a new suit—so torn had his others become at woodchopping ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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