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as in excitable
easily excited by nature
you have to be quiet while the deer are grazing, as they are flighty animals and will run if they hear you
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as in goofy
lacking in seriousness or maturity
flighty and giggly preteens at their first dance
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Recent Examples of flighty
Ever since the girls’ dad (Michael Hitchcock) came out as gay, their parents have been separated but also inseparable, in part because their flighty mom (Stephanie Faracy) is still in love with him.
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Judy Berman, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
But to me, the ultimate foundation is humility, being grounded, having your feet really connected to the earth — not being too flighty and too knowing of everything.
—Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
Her exceptional debut album was 2022’s Hypnos, a flighty R&B piece featuring Steve Lacy, Kaytranada, and Fousheé, among others.
—Madelyn Dawson, SPIN, 14 Aug. 2024
The smoky timber of Okonedo’s voice endows Regina with a queenly confidence, despite her flighty circumstances.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
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Judy Berman, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
But to me, the ultimate foundation is humility, being grounded, having your feet really connected to the earth — not being too flighty and too knowing of everything.
—Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
Her exceptional debut album was 2022’s Hypnos, a flighty R&B piece featuring Steve Lacy, Kaytranada, and Fousheé, among others.
—Madelyn Dawson, SPIN, 14 Aug. 2024
The smoky timber of Okonedo’s voice endows Regina with a queenly confidence, despite her flighty circumstances.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flighty
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Green, an excitable optimist, isn’t particularly concerned about the future.Hank Tucker, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Know your audience, an excitable kind of reader informs the author of a piece that fails to flatter his pretensions or reinforce her most uncharitable assumptions about her political opponents.Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
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Later in the evening, the two musicians posed for photos backstage, serving up some goofy poses and clearly enjoying themselves.Jack Irvin, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Eddie and Venom’s relationship is goofy bordering on insane, and the limitations do indeed start to show in The Last Dance.James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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There’s really nothing to be nervous about, just the optics of everything.Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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Still, Trump kept Republicans nervous by mixing in messages of grievance up until the very end of the race, veering off a script on inflation and immigration that operatives believed was more effective in winning over persuadable voters.Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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In this show, everyone has their distinct personalities — Reneé as Leighton is sassy and dry and Pauline as Kimberly is sweet and a little silly, for example.Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024
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Here was this band of rebellious and silly kids in bright clothes rapping their asses off.Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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The roar from the terraces when Kohli enters the crease, like Tendulkar before him, is deafening and generates the same giddy reactions anywhere in the world.Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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In his early writeups, Killian adopts, or perhaps apes, a tone of giddy consumerism.Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
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In 2016, more than 80 percent of Taiwanese people believed that resistance in a potential conflict with China would be futile; by 2022, the proportion of the population expressing this view had nearly halved to 43 percent.David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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After making a futile effort to revive Asahi with chest compressions, Masa orders No. 17 to sleep and then to wake again.Chris Klimek, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
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The 52-year-old star rose to fame playing the ditzy teenager, Kelly Bundy, on the sitcom Married... with Children for 10 years until 1997.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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In 1987, Sorkin was a regular on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, playing the show’s comic relief: the ditzy, leggy, Noo Yawk–accented Calliope Jones.Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Flighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flighty. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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