harebrained
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“That’s the stupidest, dumbest, most harebrained scheme I’ve heard in my life,” a farmer complained to a government official in one scene, a sentiment studio executives echoed as they rejected Carter’s project as too far-fetched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Santos clearly has an appetite for harebrained petty scams, which is exactly what has done him in on the national level.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
The worst that could happen is people like Musk have less money to invest in harebrained schemes like "ChatGPT, but more racist."
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2023
As if amid some harebrained sitcom, the following two guys wound up rooming together as basketball teammates: a 17-year-old about to turn 18 and a 26-year-old about to turn 27.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
Her harebrained live wire of a daughter, the perpetual overreactor, prone to fits of furious indignation about nothing at all.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
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