hare-brained
Example Sentences
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But while civilian-run regimes might be less apt to launch destructive, hare-brained conflicts in the short term, in the long-term they can still be ticking time bombs.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2022
It certainly seems like a hare-brained scheme, but it's not against the law to propose a terrible idea to someone.
From Salon • Sep. 2, 2021
The hare-brained and at times surprisingly haphazard scheme, along with Mathews’s charisma, casts a lighthearted, caper-oriented tone on the series.
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2020
The series is rooted in the old sitcom values of sudden impulses, mutual deception and hare-brained schemes.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2018
It was no brash idea, no hare-brained impulse concocted in one's cups, perhaps.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
