flighty
adjective
given to flights of fancy; capricious; frivolous.
flightily
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a word derived from
flighty.
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Cheyne shrugged her shoulders a little flightily.
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
This old woman, from long solitude, I suppose, talked to others as if she were talking to herself, and rambled on, flightily and vaguely.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
There, you little thing, I was only in fun,' dabbing her sister's forehead; 'but don't you be a silly puss, and don't you think flightily and eloquently about degenerate impossibilities.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
If they're not flightily mad with eccentricity and brandy, they are morbidly mad with solitude and sentiment.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
If i had been stouter and stronger in health, I should then have been almost flightily happy; but the Weakness of the frame still kept the rest in order.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
