hare-brained
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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
Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, Louise Haigh, the shadow transport secretary, posted previous commitments by the Conservatives to LTNs, adding: "Whose hare-brained idea was it in the first place?"
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
Indeed, shockingly naïve and hare-brained conspiracy theories abounded after the Sandy Hook shooting, and were infamously propagated by radio personalities like Alex Jones.
From Salon ● May 28, 2022
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
"Lord, it is the hare-brained Frenchman!" cried Rollo, yet with some glow of pleasure in his face.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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