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Meanings of empty-headed in English

Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.

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      1
      It was not as if Maisie were an empty-headed, empty-natured little girl.
      Simon the Jester
      2
      He was too empty-headed to dread what he was about to do.
      Heart-shaped box
      3
      He had heard of that excellent but empty-headed young man Mr. Surtees.
      The American Senator
      4
      Mere empty-headed conceit excites our pity, but ostentatious hypocrisy awakens our disgust.
      Sketches of Young Couples
      5
      That empty-headed doll has got our Mart just wrapped round her finger!
      Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
      6
      You don't really think anyone is empty-headed enough to believe your little story.
      Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
      7
      Also the King was empty-headed by the same chance, being born without brains.
      Rinkitink in Oz / Wherein Is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prin...
      8
      The men who write for us are blackguards and empty-headed fops.
      London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
      9
      It taught me a lesson when I was nothing but an empty-headed girl.
      One Woman's Life
      10
      I cannot understand why he married that penniless and empty-headed beauty.
      A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01
      11
      They're for the most part phony, or empty-headed, banal and bungling.
      The Guardian
      12
      Like all empty-headed people, she was quick to lose her temper.
      The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat / Slumber-Town Tales
      13
      Miss Furnival, as they all thought, had not found him empty-headed.
      Orley Farm
      14
      The hussy was empty-headed, ill-tempered, greedy, and what's more, she was a fool.
      The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
      15
      Even the most empty-headed woman is in the same case.
      The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
      16
      He always was Huffle Scuffle; a noisy, pretentious, empty-headed fellow.
      The Small House at Allington
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