scatty

• “Instead of an evil stepmother, as the Grimms have it, the children have a loving but scatty mother and a caring but drunken father.”

  The Guardian: Hänsel und Gretel: Fatten kid. Cook. Then eat

• “I find the millennial beat of the water, which has flowed here for thousands of years, a good antidote to the scatty world I live in," he says.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Streets on the Thames

• “They are excellent, and so am I when I am not lazy, dumb, prejudiced, boring, offensive, and scatty.”

  The Awesome Movement and the Dreaded Even Thoughs

• “Janet turned up fashionably late and scatty as usual, almost leaving one of her troupe of children in the back of the cab.”

  Court Out « A Fly in Amber

• “A passing insistence on detail – every meal is described, and even the trials of travelling Ryanair get a mention – helps chain a sometimes scatty book to earth.”

  The Guardian: La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review

• “She's impulsive and emotional, scatty, hello darling, mwah mwah, and dressed all wrong.”

  The Guardian: TV review: The Deep and Glamour Models, Mum and Me

• “This scatty mish-mash of a summer, in which at its height England will have gone almost three months without a Test match, has lost its shape.”

  The Guardian: Ian Bell helps England stroll past Bangladesh at Trent Bridge

• “Young said she had looked back on her somewhat scatty notes from the judging process and words such as "extraordinary, special, striking, moving".”

  The Guardian: Ulster Museum takes top arts prize

• “Anyone who has seen Joan Rivers in action will recognise the characters as no-nonsense Beverly (Chaffin) and scatty Ronna (Denbo) wrest control of our love lives.”

  The Guardian: Ronna and Beverly

• “Everyone in the building knew whose car that was and now someone who lived near me knew that I was “scatty.””

  Simon & Schuster: Unbearable Lightness

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