flighty
adjective
given to flights of fancy; capricious; frivolous.
flightily
-
a word derived from
flighty.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Mrs. Cheyne shrugged her shoulders a little flightily.
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
The old man talked well, though flightily, with a constant reference of all topics to his own standards, recollections, and friendships, which was characteristic, but in him not unattractive.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
"Oh, I don't know!—go to the North Pole, or ride steeple-chases, or go to be a queen in the East like Lady Hester Stanhope," said Gwendolen, flightily.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
"Yes; but by more than a promise; by an oath," he said, flightily; "and she is not the only woman who is infatuated with me," he added, chuckling at his companion's discomfiture.
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Annie Gregg Savigny
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
