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
The fact that she was some day to be 'Warmley' was the mainspring of that hairbrained jaunt to Lang Marsh in company with Nettie Wallace.
From Comedies of Courtship by Hope, Anthony
If hairbrained courage, and an outrageous spirit of gallantry, can make good his pretensions to the high lineage he claims, these qualities have never been denied him.
From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir
Chapter 1.XXXIII.—How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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