(1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(2) I arrived there rather starry-eyed and naive and young, and didn't find it a hugely happy experience, because the women who were there permanently, not surprisingly, totally reasonably, thought, 'Who are these flibbertigibbets?'
(3) He said: "As to the prime minister, I'd rather have a man who knows his own mind, grasps the picture and sticks to his guns, rather than a shallow flibbertigibbet who has not had the guts to take on his own party, let alone find any ideas to change the country."
(4) She seems at pains to emphasise this fact, as if I might be about to dismiss her as a lightweight flibbertigibbet who thinks GDP is a brand of hair straightener.
(5) She says her team does not employ "young gregarious flibbertigibbets" and "we don't get rid of people just because they look older.
(6) She had started out as a teenage dancer on Top of the Pops before becoming a mainstay of 1980s Saturday morning children's TV: she played a roller-skating flibbertigibbet on Number 73 , and presented Motormouth .
Silly
Definition:
(n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed.
(n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
(n.) Weak; helpless; frail.
(n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
(n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
(n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
Example Sentences:
(1) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
(2) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.
(3) As if to prove her silly dilettantism, when a journalist asked Dasha about her favourite artists, she replied, "I'm, like, really bad at remembering names."
(4) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(5) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
(6) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In an essay for the Hollywood Reporter, Camille Paglia writes that Swift promotes a ‘silly, regressive public image’.
(8) His selection on Twitter, he added, was “all in no particular order, off the top of my head, and the most incomplete of lists”, put together in response to Talese’s “silliness”.
(9) As soon as they saw how serious it was, they switched from being my silly, fun friends into being the most reliable and amazing people.
(10) They were all young, and it was a party house, devoted to games of hide and seek, music, silly practical jokes and food fights in the drawing room.
(11) As a result, one or two wrote some rather silly things in their reports,” Wilshaw said.
(12) ‘Silly things said by a silly man’ To be honest I really don’t care what BoJo says.
(13) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
(14) Watching “our lads” pretending to mouth questionable lyrics about God giving the Queen near-immortal life, and her being the victor when she’s not really of fighting age, is silly.
(15) Imagine my relief this week then, when I found out that I can now let go of all my silly gay politics.
(16) We have referees who are unfamiliar with that silly "Goaltender Interference" technicality.
(17) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
(18) "But they're so silly that I must say I never found them intimidating."
(19) Just as certain songs become inextricably associated in our minds with certain eras (before the invention of iPods, that is, after which everyone could walk around every day with all the songs in the world on shuffle), so too do silly trends.
(20) In 2014, she began working as a writer at Late Night with Seth Meyers; her first standup spot on that show began with a joke that typified both her silliness and confidence.