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Union Address (1790-2001);<br />

• (evenhanded)- impartial; equitable, ( ; ( ) ;<br />

); So evenhanded, so tolerant of those who disagree with you on<br />

principle. — Clear and Present Danger;<br />

• (equity)- the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality,<br />

( ; - ); "In a technical<br />

sense, the term equity is applied to those cases not specifically provided for<br />

by positive law." — Studies in Civics;<br />

giddy = frivolous = flippant = heedless = light-headed = airheaded =<br />

featherbrained = dizzy : vertigo<br />

• (giddy)- affected with vertigo; dizzy, ( );<br />

• frivolous and lighthearted; impulsive; flighty,( , );<br />

The horrible discovery made him giddy, and his head swam on his first look<br />

down into that abyss of infamy. — The Wandering Jew — Volume 07;<br />

• (frivolous)- characterized by lack of seriousness or sense, ( , ,<br />

, , ( ) , , ); Some of the<br />

criticisms were frivolous, and revealed the partisan, rather than the honest<br />

man. — The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873;<br />

• (flippant)- frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness;<br />

characterized by levity, ( , , , , ); The reply<br />

was careless, flippant, almost contemptuous. — The Rise of the Dutch Republic<br />

— Volume 06: 1560-61;<br />

• (heedless)- careless; thoughtless; unmindful, ( ; ;<br />

); He was naturally rough, headstrong, and heedless--qualities that<br />

tend to drag a youth down to ruin. — The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His<br />

learning;<br />

• (light-headed)- thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose; She<br />

felt light-headed from both excitement and fear. — One Summer Evening;<br />

• (airheaded)- Slang. a scatterbrained, stupid, or simple-minded person;<br />

dolt;<br />

• (featherbrained)- a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain;<br />

• (dizzy)- having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall; giddy;<br />

vertiginous, ( ); He was dizzy, sick, faint, but he must not<br />

die, and he must not tarry, for his life meant many lives that day. — The<br />

White Company;<br />

• (vertigo)- a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of<br />

being in tilting or spinning surroundings, ( ; ); A<br />

sickening vertigo, a whirling head, sent him lurching across the room. —

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