crackbrained

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Most of the State had always assumed that the canal was a crackbrained project which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity.

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Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run.

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Shafer pictures Shapp as an "eccentric" whose proposals are either "crackbrained" or "crazy."

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Ideas Sirs: Considering the number of crackbrained ideas sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt does he not deserve the name Franklin "Stoopnagle" Roosevelt?

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The crackbrained fellow dreams of nothing less than becoming related to the cardinal, and seeing his daughter a general's wife; he might remember poor Sagrario.

From The Shadow of the Cathedral by Gillespie, Mrs. W. A.