How to Use ditzy in a Sentence

ditzy

adjective
  • The tune scorned the ditzy middle-class teens who spoke in uptalk and spent their free time at the mall.
    New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • An easy jersey midi dress in a fun ditzy floral print is hard to pass up.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Quinn tries to be less ditzy and gets rejected by a tutor voiced by Carson Daly!
    Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 22 June 2018
  • Matenopoulos, the first original cast member to get fired, was too ditzy.
    Time, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Hawn became a household name as the ditzy blonde with saucer eyes and a disarming giggle.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Yet despite the character’s growth over the course of the series, Penny never shook the ditzy stereotype.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Taking on the voice of their ditzy characters, the two began presenting.
    Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • On the show, Fahy plays Daphne Sullivan, the ditzy, pampered wife of a playboy financier, with a secret knack for playing twisted mind games.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • On Twitter, she has been caricatured as a kind of ditzy bourgeois dilettante who gives succor to the viciousness of the alt-right.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The subtle violet scent, like the ditzy floral packaging, has a throwback feel.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • The first—the Tagliatelle linen dress—is one of the brand’s signature styles (two members of the Vogue team have the dress in black and white respectively), and comes with a flattering, corset-like bodice and classic ditzy floral print.
    Joy Montgomery, Vogue, 25 July 2022
  • Thompson and McKinney revive their ditzy and depressed hotel guests for an amusing new dilemma: finding the will to leave the couch and grab their iPad to order bonbons.
    Jill Krajewski, Vulture, 24 May 2022
  • In the clips, which are often very funny, Eby assumes the character of a typically ditzy influencer to describe what life with A.L.S. is like.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • In season 5, Lisa was outraged that her talking Malibu Stacy doll came with ditzy catchphrases.
    Dana Schwartz, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Hilton is not the first reality star to shed her ditzy reputation and use her celebrity to create substantial change.
    Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Was this an often rude, crude display of a live Peter Pan Complex with ditzy inappropriate childishness, of c-words and peed pants?
    A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 29 Oct. 2022
  • There’s only so much a filmmaker can accomplish in a glittery tale about a blonde doll and her ditzy sidekick, no matter how well acted and constructed.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 July 2023
  • Like Lucille Ball in hip-hugging denim, Simpson would play the ditzy wife to Lachey’s exasperated husband.
    Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Throughout her many attempts to usurp Kuzco, Yzma never fails to steal the screen with a dazzling purple outfit, eccentric sense of humor, and the help of Kronk, her ditzy sidekick.
    Nitya Rao, Seventeen, 11 Aug. 2022
  • In addition to being a young woman, people wanted to treat me as some kind of ditzy character, perhaps because of my eccentric stage name and fashion.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 24 May 2023
  • Proud to be a ditzy blonde, Chlapecka didn’t think of herself as a bimbo per se, until one day when her comments section was flooded with affirmations and praises calling her one.
    Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The blonde 31-year-old is known in downtown circles for the ability to lightly parody a ditzy life of iced matchas and Brandy Melville shopping sprees while also being the smartest voice on luxury timepieces for women.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 19 May 2021
  • There were other fun and colorful ditzy floral prints while cascading floral rhinestone designs were also added here and there.
    Sara Radin, Teen Vogue, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Dark magicians, meanwhile, might be killing wondrous creatures to fuel their powers, but some are ditzy enough to narrowly miss walking into trees.
    Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Meanwhile, women are frequently portrayed as ditzy sexpots or screeching old ladies.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • With her well-meaning, but ditzy demeanor, Kelsey spent most of the first season providing comic relief in tense situations by putting her lack of common sense on full display for her classmates.
    refinery29.com, 8 May 2018
  • Hawn delivers a matronly, toned-down version of her ditzy shtick, and Schumer, who has yet to find the right footing for her subversive talents in the movies, dutifully enacts her own potty-mouthed persona.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2017
  • To lose ourselves in a world of winks and wisecracks from quick-witted showgirls, ditzy heiresses and fast-talking career women may seem like a borderline irresponsible choice in These Troubled Times.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
  • From delicate ditzy motifs befitting spring to botanical blooms for a destination wedding, floral prints run the gamut.
    Laura Lajiness Kaupke, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Bild Lilli was a single-panel comic character in a German tabloid — a sweet, ditzy, curvy figment of the male imagination, frequently losing her clothes and enjoying the company of men.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 2 May 2019

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