hare-brained
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In the aftermath of his unconventional voyage, Larry Walters assured the American public he wasn't actually a crackpot who had risked life and limb with a hare-brained scheme that was dreamed up on a whim.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024
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
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
He had haunted their offices and they had endured his obdurate besieging only because he was an efficient man cheaply employed, and, as such, entitled to one hare-brained eccentricity.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
