rattlepated

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rattlepated - lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott

rattlebrained, scatterbrained, scatty

foolish - devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision"

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It isn't proper to be gadding about so late with a rattlepated boy like..."

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I looked at the once lively, rattlepated, humorous little doctor-- associated in my remembrance with the perpetration of incorrigible social indiscretions and innumerable boyish jokes--and I saw nothing left of his former self, but the old tendency to vulgar smartness in his dress.

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