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Перевод: flighty

[прилагательное]
капризный; взбалмошный; изменчивый; непостоянный; ветреный; помешанный; пугливый

Тезаурус:

1. I quickly exhaust my quota of courage out on the roads when seated on something flighty.
2. A tendency towards rather flighty behaviour in the breed is being overcome by careful selection.
3. I have a blister under my right ear, and I take twenty-five drops of laudanum every five hours, the ease and spirits gained by which have enabled me to write you this flighty but not exaggerated account.
4. The " Moonlight" Sonata is impetuous even in the opening sostenuto first movement, and his Carnaval is flighty, skittish and full of character.
5. But Prince is either too frivolous or too religious for his flighty fancies to be pinned down to this discourse of responsibility and constructive intervention.
6. Group identity, as Karl Hufbauer shows in his recent book The Formation of the German Chemical Community (New Scientist , 17 March, p 744) has shown, can be a powerful force in rejecting a new theory, especially if it was a "passing french fad" and some thing typical of the "flighty French".
7. A crisis occurred in the 1780s following publication of Antoine Lavoisier's anti-phlogistic system, dismissed initially by the community as a "passing French fad" and something typical of the "flighty French".
8. Flighty as she might have been until then, Liza Tremayne was still a virgin.
9. Not that she wanted them, the flighty painted girls in the street.
10. In ordinary hydrogen the bulky proton is almost at rest relative to the flighty lightweight electron which encircles it.
11. The lady had always been a bit flighty in her mind - nervous, delicate, taking odd fancies.
12. But she was not in the flighty, dumb-blonde mould.
13. She was a good looker, if a bit flighty for these parts.