Her flightiness or inconstancy was of the most dangerous kind.
She was not absolutely false by disposition, but necessity had made her so, and her natural flightiness made her appear twice as false as she was.
Gradually the flightiness of his upbringing would wear off down to the steel, the hard-tempered, paternal steel.
This glimpse of his father's mastery of every detail of that organization which he had built, this glimpse of cool, self-centered authority, only reminded Jack of his own ignorance and flightiness in view of all that would be expected of him.
He was tall, lean, pale, with a haggard eager look, expressive at once of flightiness and of shrewdness.
A tendency to flightiness in speculation on the one hand, and a stolid refusal to speculate at all on the other, are the marks of second century Christianity.
Flightiness is volatility carried to an extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or weakness.
Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark; volatility of temper, of spirits; flightiness of mind or disposition.
None at all in itself, only remember the harm it may do to the children for you to be heedless of people's opinion, and to get a reputation for flightiness and doing odd things.
And when she would not give it him, in his flightiness he seized the pinjara, and flew up to heaven with it in the form of a bird.
And when my wings grew, I flew about hither and thither with the flightiness natural to a bird, [20] displaying the miracle of my learning.
A Reputation for Flightiness ¶ This lightning-like liveliness of face, body and voice, his quick replies and instantaneous reactions to everything also cause him to be called "flighty.
Business Liabilities ¶ An appearance of flightiness and his tendency to hop from one subject to another, stand in the way of the Thoracic's promotion many times.
I need not now, I am sure, enlarge upon your indiscretion and want of thought, in so hastily trusting yourself with a man so little known to you, and whose gaiety and flightiness should have put you on your guard.
