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- adjective
silly andfrivolous ;empty-headed
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Examples
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The place was cluttered and cozy, filled with knickknacks and pets: a cageful of ornamental finches whose aimless twittering gave Joanna a whole new insight into the term "birdbrained"; Pella's two fat pugs about whom Joanna, a cat person, privately agreed with the Regent; and, to Joanna's great delight, a five-foot boa constrictor dozing in wintry torpor in a big glass cabinet built into the side of the chimney.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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My favorites are brainless, witless, imbecilic, birdbrained, halfwitted and the ultimate putdown: chowderheaded.
Matthew Yglesias » Journalists, Bloggers, and Status Anxiety 2009
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As Obama supporters were ever more certainly avowing the progressive superiority of their candidate, they had fixed on another explanation besides birdbrained female solidarity for why people were still voting for Clinton: racism.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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As Obama supporters were ever more certainly avowing the progressive superiority of their candidate, they had fixed on another explanation besides birdbrained female solidarity for why people were still voting for Clinton: racism.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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Are people now birdbrained to understand that Hillary Clinton thinks that America belongs to her.
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As Obama supporters were ever more certainly avowing the progressive superiority of their candidate, they had fixed on another explanation besides birdbrained female solidarity for why people were still voting for Clinton: racism.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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As Obama supporters were ever more certainly avowing the progressive superiority of their candidate, they had fixed on another explanation besides birdbrained female solidarity for why people were still voting for Clinton: racism.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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Currently, one birdbrained practitioner of these attacks is Byron York, who questions Senator John Edwards 'wealth.
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Maybe that's an utter birdbrained statement, but there you are - it's mine.
Archive 2005-10-01 Ben Barren 2005
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Maybe that's an utter birdbrained statement, but there you are - it's mine.
Maybe Diller was AOL Right Ben Barren 2005
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