scatterbrained

• "You simply have to pull yourself together," she went on mercilessly, "behave like a responsible mother, not a scared, scatterbrained, wimpish shopgirl." —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
• "It's not scatterbrained," I said, my voice rising. —  Shirley Damsgaard - [Ophelia ; Abby Mystery 3] - The Trouble With Witches
• Sassy was rather scatterbrained, and Janet watched over her like a mother hen. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
• The Hanna daughter, my beautiful, scatterbrained, egomaniac mother, had produced me, then gone out of production, and, I suppose, had made it clear to her family that she had no intention of ever returning to it. —  The Luxembourg Run
• For those who didn't come out scatterbrained, depressed, or homicidal, though, it was a time of rebirth. —  Steele, Allen - [Near-Space 05] - A King of Infinite Space

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