harebrained

Example Sentences

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Grace, who has appeared in political ads with multiple siblings denouncing Paul, said she finds her brother’s recent behavior to be particularly “harebrained, stupid, offensive and racist,” but that it didn’t come from nowhere.

From Washington Post

The clumsy symbolism — rewarding al-Qaeda’s allies on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — recalled Trump’s harebrained plan to meet with Taliban leaders around Sept. 11, 2019.

From Washington Post

It was soccer’s easily monetized fanaticism that drew them to the game in the first place, and that eventually convinced them that their harebrained superleague scheme could work.

From New York Times

Its elimination came in the same week that the Juventus president, Andrea Agnelli, had ill advisedly gone public with his latest harebrained schemes for improving the sport he purports to love.

From New York Times

Long before aggrieved reactionaries became barnacles to its abandoned underside in order to spout talking points imported directly from The Ingraham Angle, it existed as an extremely sincere, extremely harebrained epicenter of mindless juvenile interests.

From The Verge