lightminded

Your legends call us lightminded and frivolous in our affections-but think you for a moment.

Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001

Experience hath often shown how one that is lightminded, and not yet firmly founded in virtue, when he doth join himself to them of the world without restraint, is either entangled by their sins, or, under stress of temptation, doth grow cold toward the good courses he had begun.

The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905

The latter refrained from replying in kind, not altogether out of reserve, but more because of a dim suspicion (which rose within him the third time Truslow called him "Senator" in one sentence) that his first opinion of the young man as a lightminded person might have been correct.

Mrs. Protheroe 1905

Plays which were merely lightminded and irresponsible in their viciousness were repeatedly mentioned by Mr Harcourt and others.

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet George Bernard Shaw 1903

This superstition of a continual capricious disorder in nature, of a lawgiver who was also a lawbreaker, made atheists in all directions among clever and lightminded people.

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

I deliberately quote the malicious and careless phrase to show how in the eyes of lightminded and shallow people the stamp of a terrible accusation is transformed into the stamp of the crime itself.

The Crushed Flower and Other Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

He that is hasty to trust is lightminded; and he that sinneth shall offend against his own soul.

Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

In vain did journals and speakers of the opposition represent him as a lightminded trifler, who amused himself with frivolous story-telling and coarse jokes, while the blood of the people was flowing in streams.

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 Abraham Lincoln 1837

In vain did journals and speakers of the opposition represent him as a lightminded trifler, who amused himself with frivolous story-telling and coarse jokes, while the blood of the people was flowing in streams.

Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837

We encourage our youngsters to treat members of the opposite sex the same way they would want other girls or boys to be treating the boy or girl they end up marrying some day - with respectful Christian friendship, not flirtatious, frivolous, lightminded, or, heaven forfend, outright wanton ways.

The Common Room 2009