harebrained
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“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” Nagy said, referring to the methods used this year.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025
“That’s the stupidest, dumbest, most harebrained scheme I’ve heard in my life,” a farmer complained to a government official in one scene, a sentiment studio executives echoed as they rejected Carter’s project as too far-fetched.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
Santos clearly has an appetite for harebrained petty scams, which is exactly what has done him in on the national level.
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023
As if amid some harebrained sitcom, the following two guys wound up rooming together as basketball teammates: a 17-year-old about to turn 18 and a 26-year-old about to turn 27.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023
That discovery excited him much more than any of his other harebrained undertakings.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing harebrained
Mississippi Trial, 1955
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Henry IV, Part 1
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