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  • adjective superlative form of flighty: most flighty.

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Examples

  • Especially when such a message would essentially be directed at Stoudemire and Marion, who come off as the flightiest guys on the team mood-wise.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hindsight 2007

  • He describes the decorations of the Capitol and how "not in one's flightiest dreams has there been so much marble and china, gold and bronze, so many painted gods and goddesses."

    Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln'?: An Exchange Vidal, Gore 1988

  • He went to look at the last pushpots, and they were ready to be taken over to their flightiest before use.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • I shall not dwell upon the career of Sophia -- who has pursued her life in Paris very wisely, shrewdly, circumspectly, not to say commercially, thus showing how honest bourgeois ancestry can triumph over the flightiest of modern temperaments.

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • She was, therefore, at her flightiest, and greeted Joan with delight.

    The Shield of Silence George [Illustrator] Loughridge

  • The last one they had was, and his wife was the silliest, flightiest little thing I ever saw.

    Anne's House of Dreams 1915

  • To his Majesty this was merely the voice of Max at his flightiest.

    King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

  • The last one they had was, and his wife was the silliest, flightiest little thing I ever saw.

    Anne's House of Dreams 1908

  • "I'm the flightiest and feather-headedest ass that ever brayed," he informed me.

    Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

  • It was before I moved over from South side, but Mrs. Hikes says she had the flightiest clothes when he was courtin 'her.

    A Village Ophelia and Other Stories Anne Reeve Aldrich 1879

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