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   Flighty (?), a.
   1. Fleeting; swift; transient.
   
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   The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
   
   Unless the deed go with it. Shak.
   
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   2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
   
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   Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. Coleridge.
   
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   A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. J. S. Harford.
   
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