birdbrained , also: bird-brained

Today the birdbrained heroine is an awkward fit with characters who are meant to be savvy career women.

Birds are generally thought of as birdbrained, he writes:

Anyway, the little birdbrained lizards were getting stabbed by flying stone needles, and it served them right.

Researchers have recently been astonished to observe just how birdbrained crocodilians can be in their behaviors.

The two elves just stood and stared, one of them jabbering at him in that birdbrained tongue of theirs.

"Hey, that's a real birdbrained notion!"

But the inane writing makes Teddie a throwback to the birdbrained housewife character, even if she does have a career.

More "Brilliant or Birdbrained?

Miss Adams may be trying for deliciously offbeat humor, and her characters may not be any more birdbrained than the equivalent men.

Of course, Margaret would sneer and tell her that the old woman had a dozen more in the stockroom ready to pass them off to birdbrained tourists.

"Harpies are birdbrained stinkers!"

Sue Ellen works as a high-powered businesswoman by day and plays as a birdbrained teen-ager by night.

Her methods: cooking elaborate meals for the scientist, going to bed with him and wowing him with her delightfully birdbrained manner.

Larry's birdbrained wife is off making love to Maria's compulsively unfaithful husband, leaving the two of them at the reception hall long after the wedding party is over.

Our resident cross to bear, Harry, cackled and yelled one of his usual birdbrained comments: "You're welcome to smoke these boobies, bubbelah!"

But it inevitably becomes anticlimactic after Ronnie, who has been seen only in amusing parodies of birdbrained movies full of teen-age louts, appears in the flesh.

The birds were not bothering him, perhaps because be had presented a stationary target, but he doubted that either this or any birdbrained gratefulness for their release would endure very long.

He's separated from his birdbrained wife (Justine Arlin), and he has been carrying on an edgy affair with Natalie Tate (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), an assistant district attorney.

When she was not shuffling the extra deck of cards, she sat squinting into a tiny pocket mirror, brushing mascara on her curling reddish eyelashes in a birdbrained effort to make them longer permanently.

And again he matches wits, if that is the word, with the two hapless burglars who stalked him last time: Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), the two most birdbrained adult males who ever figured in a little boy's daydream.