light-minded
adjective
having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling.
light-mindedness
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a word derived from
light-minded.
Example Sentences
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Please help me find some way—so that he won't go on being light-minded and liking light-mindedness.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
She's intellectual and earnest, and my ignorance and light-mindedness wound her to the quick.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
Yet also this palace,' proceeded he, consoling himself with the light-mindedness of youth, 'will one day again rise from its ashes, perhaps more beautiful than before.
From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde
Her light-mindedness, her unsteadiness, and all the faults which you have just cited, cannot be laid to her charge, for from her youth up she has never learned to recognize them as faults.
From A Sister's Love A Novel by W. Heimburg
Sir Morgan Walladmor," said Alderman Gravesand, "is a wise man; and, in these times of change and light-mindedness, he sticks up for ancient customs.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by Thomas De Quincey
