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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Despite the crackbrained ideas, a former official of the National Security Council maintains that LaRouche has "one of the best private intelligence services in the world."

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It is late, it is nineteen-nineteen— go to sleep, his cries are a lullaby; his jabbering is a sleep-well-my-baby; he is a crackbrained messenger.

From Sour Grapes A Book of Poems by Williams, William Carlos