bird-brained

British  

adjective

1. informal silly; stupid

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Example Sentences

Once a franchise clicks with audiences, the bird-brained executives running these media companies proceed to run a good thing into the ground by building these content universes.

From Salon

But while the peculiar animals have inspired a panoply of research, not least as to whether they were really bird-brained or as corpulent as portraits implied, much about the dodo’s life has remained a mystery until now.

From The Guardian

Even the most doltish, bird-brained legislator on either side of the Capitol knows that it is essential that the United States meet its legal obligations.

From Washington Post

When you think that they also have to build their own homes, provide their own defense, find their own safe food and water, and raise young without the benefit of medical assistance, while remaining so chirpy, it makes us seem downright bird-brained.

From Washington Post

It may sound like a bird-brained idea, but scientists have trained pigeons to spot cancer in images of biopsied tissue.

From Science Magazine