(a.) Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
Example Sentences:
(1) And given the unappealing nature of some relatives and the flightiness of pals, sometimes Jacob’s ubiquitous punditry is all you’ve got.
(2) Far from being a ruthless dictator, the Kaiser, who changed his mind on an almost hourly basis in the runup to the war, was a flighty, indecisive leader who was quickly pushed aside by the generals once the war began.
(3) In Annie Hall she is basically herself: nervous, gauche, flighty and hilarious.
(4) The character, Carla May Wilks, is described as a flighty and self-centred woman who enjoys turning her hobbies into ill-fated business schemes.
(5) They are very flighty birds.” On 20 days each season, nine “guns” would arrive at Mawle’s farm.
(6) Directed by Judd Apatow, Trainwreck sees her play a flighty men’s magazine journalist whose string of one-night stands is brought to end when she unexpectedly falls for a physiotherapist (played by Bill Hader).
(7) And there are all sorts of people there, like a retired colonel and a famous lady clairvoyant and an angry young man and a flighty young thing – isn't this just a fascinating cast of characters?
(8) It is mightily irritating to find it still the case that, whenever a person or party is to be portrayed as feckless, fickle or flighty, we head straight for the big box of gender generalisations.
(9) The fear responses of adult laying hens of two lines, flighty and docile, were assessed in each of three commonly employed and widely differing test situations.
(10) Since the perception was that Facebook's growth had been driven by young people – who are known to be fickle and flighty in their affiliations – Facebook's share price came to be correlated with rumours that teens were, or were not, getting bored with it.
(11) There was also Marnie , in which Sean Connery coerces a flighty Hedren into a loveless marriage.
(12) It is precisely because that friend seems so new, young, fresh and perhaps flighty that you don't mind so much when it makes a hash of things and loses your precious data.
(13) There were no surprises from Scolari, who picked the team he was always going to pick, with Luis Gustavo and Paulinho providing a muscular central shield and cover for Dani Alves and Marcelo, a pair of fun but flighty full-backs.
(14) It may have been ever thus, but it's surely still worth saying: whenever a party or an institution or even a country is to be portrayed as feckless, fickle or flighty, writers head straight for the big book of gender generalisations.
(15) "From a Lady to a lover, who suspects her of receiving the addresses of another" was a model letter full of extenuating ammunition for the flighty.
(1) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
(2) Bosnia were dreadfully vulnerable on their left with Lulic often drawn forwards, a situation not helped by the uncharacteristic skittishness of Emir Spahic, the left-sided centre-back, who misplaced a couple of passes in the opening 10 minutes and looked anxious throughout.
(3) Obama, who had been skittish about coming to Copenhagen at all unless it could be cast as a foreign policy success, looked visibly frustrated as he appeared before world leaders.
(4) As Shallow, he “pecks at the lines, nibbles at them like a parrot biting on a nut; for all his age, he darts here and there nimbly enough, even skittishly: forgetting nothing, not even the pleasure of Falstaff’s page, that ‘little tiny thief’.” But if Tynan was enamoured of Olivier, he was also alert to the miniaturist precision of Alec Guinness.
(5) The first episodes show a woman stumbling between responses: refusing punishing treatment that might prolong her life slightly; cartwheeling down corridors; deciding not to tell her family about the diagnosis; flashing her doctor; keeping her juvenile husband at arm's length; and trying desperately, skittishly, to fix her teenage son's brattish behaviour before it's too late.
(6) Cameron Peacock, market analyst at IG Markets, said the financial markets were in "skittish" mood.
(7) Assuming, as still seems likely, that it passes, the odds that the White House will get legislators – who'll already be skittish about how changes to the healthcare system might impact on their re-election chances – to swallow another big pill like that are slim indeed.
(8) For now, it seems the selling is confined to the more skittish market participants, but if the index moves much lower the quiet retreat could turn into an increasingly panicky rout.
(9) Factory's Happy Mondays bound together the exotic new dance rhythms with a groggy Lancastrian verse, and in the movement known as Madchester was born the commercialisation of the abstract, agitating spirit of Factory, and the spirited postmodern skittishness of Wilson.
(10) If they do not assert that clear control, these technology companies risk losing business – not only from skittish consumers, but also from corporate and foreign-government clients.
(11) He learnt the new motions, the vastly swaying skittishness and violence of the revenant rigs.
(12) Matip’s aerial prowess should help improve Liverpool’s ability to defend set-pieces and he is a sound tackler and tidy builder from the back, but what his team need most in the absence of further defensive recruits is an organiser who can somehow instil concentration and calmness into chronically skittish team-mates.
(13) Skittish, exasperating and endearing, yes, but never dull.
(14) Putting in some time behind the till of my family’s shop before Christmas reminded me that the customer is a skittish beast.
(15) I’m not surprised that some [backbenchers] are skittish, because there’s all this stuff in the ether and they don’t have a broad-based package to look at.” Turnbull appeared to step back from the GST proposal during the week, answering questions from Labor on the revenue measure during question time by saying no plans had been finalised.
(16) Speaking at a meeting of the Business Roundtable in Washington, Obama warned Republicans against “playing chicken with an $18tn economy” by threatening a shutdown, especially in “skittish” stock market conditions.
(17) His comments are likely to add to the volatility of already skittish markets.
(18) I had been warned that she had been skittish about agreeing to do media interviews, that she was concerned certain boundaries should not be crossed - which put me doubly on my guard.
(19) Zuckerberg himself made clear that he wasn’t going to loosen his reigns on Facebook, reassuring skittish shareholders that he would continue to serve as the company’s CEO “for many, many years to come”.
(20) Gliding was inhibited on very hydrophobic substrata and skittish on very hydrophilic surfaces.