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Definition of Flightiest
1. flighty [adj] - See also: flighty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flightiest
Literary usage of Flightiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"A picnic life ; from love to love, From faith to faith they lightly move, And
yet, hard-eyed philosopher, The flightiest maid that ever hovered To me your ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"... noble and the flightiest of political sentimentalists ? Then the mutinous High
Church divine, dreaming on the road to Rome of an ecclesia Dei from which ..."
3. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003)
"... but I'd done an informal study and come to the conclusion that these brave
iconoclasts are often the flightiest of the lot, left smiling with bovine ..."
4. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"To be feted and toasted and to make a speech in Drury Lane Theatre would not have
entered into my flightiest conceptions, if I had made out a programme ..."
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