Miss Compton plays his assistant, a featherbrained private eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Favorite Blonde : Scrubbles.net] Reference

Here's a snapshot of the featherbrained whims that get us into this mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [From On High] Reference

    "They aren't as featherbrained as they sound," Cimorene told him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searching for dragons]

Or did you maybe think my featherbrained fool of a brother ran this business by himself?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time of the Transference]

And for one brief moment, all its featherbrained feline attention was devoted to keeping its balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

“Only a featherbrained girl would dream of becoming a celebrated Gothic novelist like Mrs. Radcliffe or Mary Shelley.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Night Of Scandal]

Unfortunately, Mr. Frey made a big mistake when he gave away the major plot points of his second memoir in a featherbrained epilogue to the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [What to Do Post-Rehab? Write a Memoir, Of Course] Reference

Fearing that his contract might be terminated if Clara's mother discovered that he was miseducating two illiterate, featherbrained young women, Monsieur Roquefort presented them with Carax's novel dressed up as a love story, which was, at least, half true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Wind]

Since most of the 15 million users of IBM's Lotus Sametime instant-messaging service work in corporate markets, they schedule interactive online meetings, attach files to present during the meeting and engage in a spot of team white boarding--but never have the featherbrained joy of sending emoticons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palmisano's IBM To Make Sametime Work With AOL, Yahoo] Reference

Take the featherbrained idea to make military veterans pay for service-related injuries with their private insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fremont Tribune News Articles] Reference

Certainly, those who share my featherbrained fear of the jovial holiday simply shut their eyes, shoved their fingers in their ears and hummed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Evergreen News Feed] Reference

All five girls are now of marriageable age and their mother, the rather featherbrained Mrs. Bennet, despairs of ever getting them all married off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Some of these monkeys I saw performing their antics in the National Assembly then sitting at Versailles; and it saddened me to see the nobler element in that assemblage thwarted by such featherbrained creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I] Reference

I first heard about Siobhain McDonagh's challenge to Gordon Brown's leadership yesterday from an old Labour sweat, sacked but loyal, dripping with contempt for featherbrained colleagues who, as he put it, "want to change the rules again".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Of course those who share my featherbrained fear of the slapstick holiday simply sealed their eyes, shoved their fingers in their ears and hummed, entering an impenetrable fortress of isolation in a vehement attempt to ensure that no matter what anyone said or did, they were not the fool this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Evergreen News Feed] Reference

"My good woman, try not to be any more featherbrained than absolutely required by your female nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tran Siberian] Reference

"I suppose a heavy hand on the rear end scrambles the brains and causes a girl to grow into a suitably featherbrained lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

I used to be afraid she'd never get over her featherbrained ways, but she has and I wouldn't be afraid to trust her in anything now. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Green Gables] Reference

I was sure that the expression on my face told him I wouldn’t tolerate any featherbrained excuses to justify his failure to call me after I had left for South Carolina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willow] Reference

Mr. Campion’s startled glance travelled hastily down the column, where, as usual, the portentous young voice of the Morning Telegram did its best to disguise its natural featherbrained exuberance with heavy dramatics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fashion in Shrouds]

Big screen documentaries strike me as similar to what Matthew Arnold (not Tom Wolfe) called ‘new journalism’ in 1887, describing the style of Stead’s Pall Mall Gazette: brash, vivid, personal, reform-minded … occasionally featherbrained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Docs and the Art of Fact] Reference

All he could do was to start, through his attorneys, a search for his wife, and meanwhile try to formulate some sort of definite plan in regard to Gladys Orchil; for if that featherbrained youngster went abroad in the spring he meant to follow her and not only have the Atlantic between him and Selwyn when he began final suit for freedom, but also be in a position to ride off any of the needy household cavalry who might come caracolling and cavorting too close to the young girl he had selected to rehabilitate the name, fortune, and house of Ruthven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Younger Set] Reference

You featherbrained punk - ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

3. Given to lighthearted silliness: empty-headed, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, lighthearted, scatterbrained, silly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Frothy Junior] Reference

# Given to lighthearted silliness: empty-headed, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, giddy, harebrained, lighthearted, scatterbrained, silly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Paul 2012 | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul] Reference

Synonyms: asinine, capricious, changeable, crazy, empty-headed, fatuous, featherbrained, fickle, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, heady, inane, light-headed, scatterbrained, silly, skittish, unstable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newspaper Review on Newsnight?] Reference