How to Use ditzy in a Sentence

ditzy

adjective
  • The tune scorned the ditzy middle-class teens who spoke in uptalk and spent their free time at the mall.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • An easy jersey midi dress in a fun ditzy floral print is hard to pass up.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Chris remains his ditzy self, wooing Brooke from lines with his own movies.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
  • Matenopoulos, the first original cast member to get fired, was too ditzy.
    — Time, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Hawn became a household name as the ditzy blonde with saucer eyes and a disarming giggle.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Quinn tries to be less ditzy and gets rejected by a tutor voiced by Carson Daly!
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 22 June 2018
  • Taking on the voice of their ditzy characters, the two began presenting.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • Taking on the voice of their ditzy characters, the two began presenting.
    — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Taking on the voice of their ditzy characters, the two began presenting.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The subtle violet scent, like the ditzy floral packaging, has a throwback feel.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • Ceara is hyper, wild and, according to her sister, definitely more ditzy.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Yet despite the character’s growth over the course of the series, Penny never shook the ditzy stereotype.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Magnussen is a dizzy, ditzy treat as human researcher and enthusiast Pleakley, just happy to be there.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 22 May 2025
  • Hilton is not the first reality star to shed her ditzy reputation and use her celebrity to create substantial change.
    — Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • On Twitter, she has been caricatured as a kind of ditzy bourgeois dilettante who gives succor to the viciousness of the alt-right.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • There’s only so much a filmmaker can accomplish in a glittery tale about a blonde doll and her ditzy sidekick, no matter how well acted and constructed.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 July 2023
  • Audrey in Little Shop is this very ditzy, lovable character who’s been dealt a bad hand, but remains pretty hopeful.
    — Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • The character was very ditzy and sweet, but people don't associate that aspect with me because of the parts I have been cast in musical theater.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • In season 5, Lisa was outraged that her talking Malibu Stacy doll came with ditzy catchphrases.
    — Dana Schwartz, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Was this an often rude, crude display of a live Peter Pan Complex with ditzy inappropriate childishness, of c-words and peed pants?
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Like Lucille Ball in hip-hugging denim, Simpson would play the ditzy wife to Lachey’s exasperated husband.
    — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Other actresses were brought in to replicate the archetype of Somers' ditzy character Chrissy Snow, but the show never fully recovered.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Georgia Engel joined the cast during season 3 as Ted Baxter’s ditzy girlfriend (and later wife), Georgette.
    — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2026
  • Levy, who audiences know best as the title character from Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, makes her stage debut as the ditzy Dusty.
    — EW.com, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Throughout her many attempts to usurp Kuzco, Yzma never fails to steal the screen with a dazzling purple outfit, eccentric sense of humor, and the help of Kronk, her ditzy sidekick.
    — Nitya Rao, Seventeen, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The first—the Tagliatelle linen dress—is one of the brand’s signature styles (two members of the Vogue team have the dress in black and white respectively), and comes with a flattering, corset-like bodice and classic ditzy floral print.
    — Joy Montgomery, Vogue, 25 July 2022
  • After portraying Shields with a more distracted and ditzy personality, O'Hara even went on to perform a satirical musical number as part of her impression.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026

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