Adjective : to be in a light-minded mood. From Dictionary.com.
The light-minded get it from changes in the weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
But a haven is wherever light-minded people get together. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007] Reference
"She's a little-well, light-minded would be the polite term.". From Wordnik.com. [Prison Of Souls]
Judith was not at all discomposed by her light-minded raillery. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
"I am not a light-minded creature, Xylina," he said, after a moment. From Wordnik.com. [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]
It made the light-hearted lighter in heart, the light-minded heavy in soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
But only a light-minded demimale would indulge in banter at a time like this. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
MISS PAYSLEY -- You like to have people think you are cynical and light-minded. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Trigg to say that she was "light-minded" and would never know how to spend money. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
AEACUS. ... and moreover believed them too light-minded to judge of a poet's merits. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
He was not, in truth, the heartless, light-minded wretch that I fear you may think him. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
It may sometimes prove exhausting to its light-minded readers, but it never exhausts itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
Your legends call us light-minded and frivolous in our affections-but think you for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]
"Other than that the sheer weight of my intellect overpowers you light-minded painterly types?". From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
She, who had served Margaret of Anjou, how could she bow the knee to her light-minded daughter?. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Queen] Reference
My trusted courier is dead; the others are light-minded, and Tape is in the height of festivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
With 7 billion people, we're in a very tight space, not one that can be escaped by light-minded fantasies. From Wordnik.com. [Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill?] Reference
There had been more than one person opposed to entrusting so sacred a work to so light-minded and trivial a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
Lester put in, trying to belong, and be light-minded, like he thought the others were, instead of a scared, pedantic kid. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
One of the lightest-minded of the many light-minded college men, had been deeply smitten by the charms of dignified Fairy. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference
To anyone who did not know her, Kethry embodied the very epitome of light-minded, light-skirted, capricious demi-nobility. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
"Maybe they're so ugly they're afraid of breaking the camera if they pose for a picture," giggled another light-minded girl. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
The Kindergarten, which is refreshment and help to the plodding German child, may become a snare to the light-minded American. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Howsomever, the works of the light-minded who are a-dancing on the edge of perdition don't make any difference in my plain duty. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
We, however, are so light-minded, i.e., destitute of gravity, that we are unable to bear within ourselves the knowledge of a mystery. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
As we have said before, it is almost impossible to make our light-minded times comprehend the earnestness with which those people lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
She flattered herself she had harvested wisdom and learned a great deal more of life than this light-minded creature had even suspected. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
One day mistrust seized the Rabbi, and he said to his son, "Women are light-minded; the Romans may tease her and then she will betray us.". From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
But the Nobodies are light-minded, casual, and good-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for Daylight] Reference
Prioress, who, it may be feared, was rather a light-minded woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Herd Boy and His Hermit] Reference
"But I tell thee that he is light-minded," said the irritated Menes. From Wordnik.com. [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference
The light-minded people, on the contrary, were rather weary than otherwise of his sway. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Supposing he has written a "light-minded fiction," as you call it, where's the harm of it? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant's Robe] Reference
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