featherhead
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It’s one of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place, back before every featherhead in your writers’ group was trying to peddle one.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2013
The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James
"I heard nothing"— "Of course!—and that was enough to make you think I was nothing but a featherhead!"
From Diana by Susan Warner
Judith: Ruth needs a careful man: For she’s the sort that’s steady with the steady, And a featherhead with featherheads.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
He did not hesitate to address him, and, featherhead as he was, did not fail to tell him the plight he was in.
From International Short Stories: French by A. Cheneviere
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