scatty
- s lacking sense or discretion
- s lost in thought; showing preoccupation
the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
- Before Actress Valerie Harper got the part of Rhoda MorgensternMary Tyler Moore's scatty Bronx Jewish neighborher agent warned her that she was really not right for the role.
- A direct director could have reduced complexity to clarity; but Director Lester, with his scatty continuity and wham-bam camerantics, has about the same effect on this picture as .
- Screwball and scatty, with as much owed to the Marx brothers as to the Viennese brethren, Beyond Therapy offers the best therapy of all: guaranteed laughter.