crackbrained

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

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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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Most of the State had always assumed that the canal was a crackbrained project which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity.

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According to Aubrey, the author was thought to be crackbrained, and lost much of his practice in consequence.

From Fathers of Biology by McRae, Charles