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hairbrained

/ ˈhɛəˌbreɪnd /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of harebrained

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“I think many of us had sort of put Sinéad on the back burner, you know? And so to sort of re-appreciate exactly or re-understand in the first place what she meant to us was, it was a really welcome sort of truing up. And I’m a person with a thousand and one hairbrained ideas, so I was just like, ‘OK, we’ll see how this goes, we’ll see what happens.’

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"Once again, his legal team continues to make frivolous and even hairbrained claims in an effort to delay Trump’s legal reckoning," Gershman added, predicting the bid "clearly won't be successful" in court but will keep "the Trump pot boiling with the rhetoric of resentment and indignation at the legal system and the mountain of criminal charges against him."

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The whole purpose of this hairbrained event is to "let's see them aliens," a question that Bookmaker.eu doesn't believe will be answered.

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Gregory, upset that he lost an election to Maggie for the leadership of Hilltop, orchestrates a hairbrained assassination attempt that seems designed solely to give the end of the episode an overwrought, awkward punch-up.

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California is running a budget surplus, so why are state lawmakers and the Brown administration scrounging for pocket change with a hairbrained idea to sell advertising space on state highways?

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