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a silly flighty person forced to endure a long flight with a flibbertigibbet as a seat companion

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Recent Examples of flibbertigibbet Duvall is a big reason why: All the film’s insights into the slipperiness of identity are there in her casually virtuosic, veritable dual performance, in which a funny flibbertigibbet loses hold of herself as the world around seems to splinter into something frighteningly new. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024 Projects about Monroe have handled her personal life to varying degrees of success, often leaning into her flibbertigibbet persona, her struggles with addiction, and the paradox of her oozing sexuality and her little girl brokenness. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023 Miranda Hart is touching as the flibbertigibbet Miss Bates, whom Emma thoughtlessly mocks. Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020 The thought leader of the hippie girls is played by that avatar of feminine passive-aggressive flibbertigibbet solipsism, Lena Dunham, the polar opposite of the no-nonsense, two-fisted, self-contained, masculine ideal represented by Cliff. Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019 Instead of acting cool and sophisticated our narrator prattled like a flibbertigibbet. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018 Warning: The book has my three-year-old calling her grandmother a flibbertigibbet. Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2017 And never mind that its mother is a flibbertigibbet who has no business having a baby. Matt Giles, Longreads, 29 Sep. 2017
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Noun
  • Rather than stay pigeonholed as a ditz, Simpson (who just released new music for the first time in 15 years) went on to launch her own fashion brand, which hit $1 billion in sales in 2015 and is still going strong today.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Instead, she was cast as the lovable ditz on Nickelodeon’s Victorious, which unexpectedly thrust her to a kind of teen idol status.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • It was shot in portrait because it was shot in Instagram by and for a woman who was losing her mind in quarantine and had fully let the sillies take the wheel.
    Ego Nwodim, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Some more sillies from last night’s GRAMMY nominees reception.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In a signature segment, the Joke Wall, performers in mod regalia poked their heads out of holes in a set, like cuckoos emerging from a clock, and spouted one-liners.
    Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Egg laying behavior of common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus): Data based on field video-recordings The New York Academy of Sciences.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Historically, betting against bigs who can pass is a fool’s errand.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Here’s the deal: Chasing quick wins is a fool’s errand.
    Jonathan Wagner, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Players lead the minotaur on goose chases into traps, set up ambushes with exploding gas jars from another part of the dungeon, or even convince the factions inside the dungeon to join them in an all-out battle against it with overwhelming numbers.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Best Deal: Quince Luxe Goose Down Pillow Luxe Goose Down Pillow $313 $120 Quince Pillow reviewer: Katherine McLaughlin, digital features editor Materials and firmness: The pillow is filled with white goose down and has a 100% cotton sateen shell.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At one point, in the role of a former C.I.A. agent, Walter Lloyd, Hackman stubs a gun under the nose of a hapless nitwit from the agency who has been sent to protect Walter and his family.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Stan Brooks: That’s the pumping-iron term for somebody who’s kind of a nitwit.
    Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Flibbertigibbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flibbertigibbet. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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