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Meanings of flighty in English

Guided by whim and fancy.

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Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

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Usage of flighty in English
1
She is a flower child-equalparts flighty and carefree, serious and decisive.
Ebony
2
I have been a foolish, flighty girl; I am sorry for it.
The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week
3
These assertive winter visitors from Scandinavia and Russia are wary, flighty birds.
The Guardian
4
Ana had played it perfectly, coming across as flighty, diminutive, and weak.
Deadly little secrets
5
Exactly the sort of woman to take care of a flighty preacher.
The Song of the Lark
6
The two of you haunt the rooftops in flighty trysts, no doubt.
Orb Sceptre Throne
7
It is liable to be flighty and build great projects on moonshine.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win
8
There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him.
Bartleby, the scrivener
9
It's that flighty young French hussy, Miss Dinah; her they call Yvonne.
Greatheart
10
I am not so flighty as I seem to be, you know.
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
11
Evidently he was inclined to give but flighty attention to his caller.
Certain Success
12
Millennials are characterized by some people as being flighty, risky, and hasty.
Ebony
13
Gabrielle was a good nurse, but a bit flighty and quite excitable.
The Hilltop Boys on the River
14
I mean, if the world was full of flighty, porn-star succubi .
Succubi like it hot
15
His one woman-friend, as everybody knew, was the flighty, go-ahead Lady Heyburn.
The House of Whispers
16
He was flighty sometimes: constant devotion to readin' had unsettled his mind.
Flower of the Dusk
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Flighty through the time
Flighty across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common