crackbrained

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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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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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The woman, appointed for my keeper, was gained over by my enemies, to torment me as an heretic, an enthusiast, one crackbrained and an hypocrite.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte