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flightiness

/flahy-tee/US // ˈflaɪ ti //UK // (ˈflaɪtɪ) //

飞行能力,飞行性,飞行,飞扬跋扈

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    flight·i·er, flight·i·est.

    • : given to flights of fancy; capricious; frivolous.
    • : slightly delirious; light-headed; mildly crazy.
    • : irresponsible: He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.
    • : Archaic. swift or fleet.

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Examples

  • There have been any number of similar statements in recent years, claims that some people are simply too uninformed or flighty to be allowed to cast a ballot.

  • Like many modern skis loaded with technology, it’s stable as hell when the sidecut is engaged but can get a little flighty when you run it straight.

  • Fitness clubs have long relied on long-term membership agreements to prevent flighty customers from abandoning their New Year’s resolutions without a financial penalty.

  • During the last presidential debate, Neves went so far to refer to Rousseff as “flighty.”

  • Plus, Joaquin spent the entirety of his last film falling in love with a flighty blonde who's tied to an technological device.

  • Evan Rachel Wood stars as a flighty barista in ‘A Case of You,’ premiering at Tribeca.

  • News and documentary production requires minute-by-minute decision-making—flighty ditherers need not apply.

  • She grew up an orphan in Japanese internment camps and has a flighty streak.

  • I never looked upon Hephzibah Wallis as flighty; in fact, she was undoubtedly the steadiest of all my girls.

  • Weve got to live somehow, and if you get a good job stick to it, say Inone of your highty flighty notions.

  • She is sweetly pretty, though they say rather a flirt, and flighty in her ways.

  • She was flighty and frivolous, evasive and obstinate, fond of pleasures not always innocent.

  • He did write to Mr. Wharton, but in doing so he altogether laid aside that flighty manner which for a while had annoyed her.