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  • But I had small children at home, you gotta take a lot of really hard exams, yada yada yada ... you know how flightly these boomers are.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die Ruin Social Security RJ 2010

  • She's tried her hand at more legitimate forms of employment, but all she's suited for, as far as she's been able to tell, is waiting tables, and she apparently wasn't good at it, not having anything like a work ethic and being rather flightly and possibly also affected with ADD.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • She's tried her hand at more legitimate forms of employment, but all she's suited for, as far as she's been able to tell, is waiting tables, and she apparently wasn't good at it, not having anything like a work ethic and being rather flightly and possibly also affected with ADD.

    Finding Amanda, losing Matthew Broderick 2008

  • If this was a chick-flick movie about a family reunion, Summer would be the brittle flightly sister who gets a talking-to from Holly Hunter at some point.

    Tuesday, July 28 – The Bleat. 2009

  • Seriously, walking a stupid, flightly bird fall to it'ss death while it claims victory isn't that funny enough?

    Yes, they really ARE as retarded as you suspected. CC 2009

  • First of all, most Democratic primary voters are just too fickle and flightly to set your heart too hard on what YOU think is the right choice.

    Waldo Jaquith - I endorse nobody. 2006

  • I heard last year there was amerchant's son wed a flightly lad given to sport a darkhaired, wideeyed man who used to spend each summer wandering.

    The Gypsy came, riding. Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2008

  • I heard last year there was amerchant's son wed a flightly lad given to sport a darkhaired, wideeyed man who used to spend each summer wandering.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2008

  • As for astrology, I'm not interested in dating anybody flightly/"dumb" enough to actually believe in that.

    Defining undateable. Ann Althouse 2005

  • I was flightly, uncommitted, and a pretty horrible friend.

    evolver Diary Entry evolver 2003

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