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Meanings of light-minded in English

Showing inappropriate levity.

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Usage of light-minded in English
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It made the light-hearted lighter in heart, the light-minded heavy in soul.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 / A Magazine...
2
Lon always was kind of light-minded, even after the state went dry.
Ma Pettengill
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I wonder you are so light-minded at such a time as this.
Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
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You do, you certainly do, rate me with the light-minded, don't you?
The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day
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My mother must have sure been frivolous and light-minded when I was born.
The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
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S. Gobat, describes the Abyssinians as light-minded, having nothing constant but inconstancy itself.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
7
She will be easy prey, because she is light-minded and inexperienced.
The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
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I don't hold with the light-minded that want to get away from retribution.
Up the Hill and Over
9
Right or wrong, he is never hard, never shallow, never light-minded.
True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libr...
10
I wish to be gay and free, light-minded and merry-hearted to-day.
Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel
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How could that light-minded woman have so deeply wounded my father?
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
12
It may sometimes prove exhausting to its light-minded readers, but it never exhausts itself.
The Jericho Road
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I thought England was a light-minded, cheerful kind of place.
The Judge
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But men are very light-minded as a rule, I think.
In the Wilderness
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Was the love of that ruddy-faced, light-minded, lying dancer a thousandth part of Saul's?
Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
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The light-minded get it from changes in the weather.
The Bibliotaph, and Other People
Frequent collocations
Light-minded through the time