hare-brained
Example Sentences
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That’s when Riley dialed up a hare-brained trick play that he’d surely regret later.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2025
But while civilian-run regimes might be less apt to launch destructive, hare-brained conflicts in the short term, in the long-term they can still be ticking time bombs.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2022
It was a hare-brained moment from the left-sided centre back.
From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2020
These examples obviously don’t imply that no general ever gave solid advice or that civilians weren’t perfectly capable of concocting their own hare-brained war-making schemes.
From Salon • May 19, 2017
This Doctor Custos," muttered Van Tricasse, "is decidedly a dangerous man--a hare-brained fellow!
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules
