Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Harebrained.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An erroneous spelling of
harebrained .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
harebrained .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
harebrained .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I don't know what kind of hairbrained vow he had tied up in it, but with the little ceremony disappeared every trace of restraint, and we plunged head over ears into the saturnalia of delights that was an old-time county fair.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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The prosecution called their story "a fairytale", the defence said it was "hairbrained" but former NRL star Greg Bird has been made to wait to find out what the judge thinks.
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"hairbrained" but former NRL star Greg Bird has been made to wait to find out what the judge thinks.
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"hairbrained" but former NRL star Greg Bird has been made to wait to find out what the judge thinks.
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We Americans sent her home to Alaska in the election because we didn't want another hairbrained idiot in Washington (Bush!!!) and figured we'd just send him home and try something new since what we had didn't work in any form except in murdering our kids, making a travesty of our economy, creating unknown depths of hatred around the world ...
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Their economies are growing like crazy because they have cheap labor and the liberals are chasing all the manufacturers out of this country with their hairbrained ideas to raise taxes, etc, etc. causing them to move to China, India, malaysia, etc.
if the troops pull out of irac will the ammo companys have a lot more for us? 2009
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Their economies are growing like crazy because they have cheap labor and the liberals are chasing all the manufacturers out of this country with their hairbrained ideas to raise taxes, etc, etc. causing them to move to China, India, malaysia, etc.
if the troops pull out of irac will the ammo companys have a lot more for us? 2009
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I did that only now it appears that hairbrained schemes aren't confined to Portland.
Clearance sale! All linchpins must go! (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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And even though I reject Amiri Baraka's hairbrained, "truther" talk about 9/11, the fact that he was speaking from the perch of the poet who was serving in a public role as poet laureate of New Jersey lent obvious weight to his cockamamie nonsense.
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And even though I reject Amiri Baraka's hairbrained, "truther" talk about 9/11, the fact that he was speaking from the perch of the poet who was serving in a public role as poet laureate of New Jersey lent obvious weight to his cockamamie nonsense.
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