crackbrained

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Shafer pictures Shapp as an "eccentric" whose proposals are either "crackbrained" or "crazy."

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Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run.

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To show business, the barter idea sounded as crackbrained as opening a theatre at the bottom of a well.

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Ideas Sirs: Considering the number of crackbrained ideas sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt does he not deserve the name Franklin "Stoopnagle" Roosevelt?

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His operations in this direction were mostly limited to sending crackbrained letters to the Civil Governor in Manila from his “camp in the sky,” but his perturbation of the rural districts had to be suppressed.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John