hairbrained
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Then all of a sudden he was north of the Wall on some hairbrained scheme to kidnap a Wight.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2017
Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion for long.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have even called me hairbrained, and perhaps you were right; but you know that I can be very serious when I wish.
From Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant
He was not quite the same boyish, hairbrained fellow who had made "a buffoon of himself" in the Chinese restaurant, three months before.
From Blix by Frank Norris
"And the first and fundamental cause of your failure is, I think, your hairbrained, unquenchable youth."
From Kenny by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
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