crackbrained

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Despite the crackbrained ideas, a former official of the National Security Council maintains that LaRouche has "one of the best private intelligence services in the world."

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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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To show business, the barter idea sounded as crackbrained as opening a theatre at the bottom of a well.

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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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That's one of 120 sail that we saw; multiply 120 by 20, and then you have the number of vessels that we must attend under this crackbrained scheme of ours.

From A Dream of the North Sea by Runciman, James