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Meanings of rattlebrained in English

Lacking sense or discretion.

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Examples for "scatty"
1
Marvellously scatty at times, until it came to the acting.
The Irish Times
2
She does not have a scatty mind, even though that is the preferred characterisation.
The Guardian
3
A scatty blonde disrupts her best friend's wedding.
The Irish Times
4
But with Bastet as their ally, I simply don't know, Scatty answered.
The Alchemyst
5
Scatty moved out of the shadows and fell into step beside him.
The Alchemyst
1
That's something my blog was way too self-indulgent and scatterbrained to do.
Wired
2
And why must I be saddled with realistic, male, scatterbrained visual reactions?
Existence
3
The dream always left him low-spirited and a little scatterbrained the next day.
Hidden Warrior
4
But Mrs. Thornburgh, it was soon evident; was giving him but a scatterbrained attention.
Robert Elsmere
5
But Gregory thinks he's far too scatterbrained even for that.
Julian
1
It isn't proper to be gadding about so late with a rattlepated boy like...
Little Women
Usage of rattlebrained in English
1
Why, Jack, Jack, what a thoughtless, rattlebrained chap you are.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
2
Through a rattlebrained friend of theirs, one Nancy Spencer, they agree to take a boy from the Hopeton Orphanage.
Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act
3
"Stop that bosh, you rattlebrained young ass, and come and take a farewell drink."
By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
Rattlebrained through the time