harebrained
Example Sentences
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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
They seeded suspicion and harebrained ideas of alternative cures, some toxic.
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2024
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
Probably it was always a harebrained scheme, though bearing in mind the atrocities to come it is hard not to sympathize.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 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
Vocabulary lists containing harebrained
Mississippi Trial, 1955
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Henry IV, Part 1
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