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Meanings of empty-headed in English

Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.

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Usage of empty-headed in English
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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