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
Show the dullest clodpole, show the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than himself is actually here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship.’
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
You have sense and discretion above your years, and are no featherhead like Bertrand here.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
It is almost wicked of the Fates to give such a featherhead any problems to solve; she ought to have her what’s-his-name, Beckett, if she wants him, particularly if he wants her.
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Christine Tucke Curtiss
"I heard nothing"— "Of course!—and that was enough to make you think I was nothing but a featherhead!"
From Diana by Susan Warner
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