Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for featherhead
Noun
  • Winnie, on the other hand, is a flibbertigibbet of stream-of-consciousness.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Burgess and Shelby’s View Forecasting Trump’s decisions is always a fool’s errand, and his public statements on Wednesday only underscored his opaque approach.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 18 June 2025
  • Still, only a fool would underestimate the strength of a mom’s love.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
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
  • Our friends came over to hang out and the goose attacked.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • The goose wore a harness and leash with a small purple bow tie on the front.
    Molly Gibbs, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2025
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
  • Besides offering a cash prize of up to $250,000, the show can help change perception of a villain or a ditz and be a springboard for their next casting.
    Shivani Gonzalez, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Not everyone is feeling so cuckoo about cocoa these days.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
  • It’s suggested to Lynskey that the difference is that Misty’s brand is cuckoo, while Shauna is effectively the eyes and the ears of the viewer.
    Todd Longwell, Variety, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Should former President Trump stop calling Ambassador Haley birdbrain?
    CBS News, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • By solving one kind of puzzle that stumped crows, though, the kids may have shown how a human mind treats problems differently than a birdbrain.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
Noun
  • Gamble, seeing there was no way to get anywhere with the chancellor playing the simpleton, opened the floor to softball questions.
    Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Americans, even or especially historians, tend to treat the early New Englanders as dogmatists: narrow, pious simpletons.
    Marilynne Robinson, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022
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“Featherhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/featherhead. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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