crackbrained

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

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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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She adored cynics and people who said piquant things, and it amused her to make her large tyrannous hand felt by the Squire's timid, crackbrained, ridiculous little sister.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.