Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
harebrained . - noun A giddy or reckless person.
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Examples
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Maybe he will run for governor and repair the damage Mitch has done with his harebrain privatization schemes.
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Odium sui facit, et ipse novissime sibi odio est, others hate him, and at last he hates himself for it; how harebrain a disease, mad and furious.
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So, at last, it was determined, and we set out on that wonderful harebrain excursion of which the very memory gives me a thrill.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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In the back of my mind was ever that harebrain resolve, half-formed as yet but none the less firmly rooted in my head.
The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914
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"I've no place to go but Greenwood, and now they threat to take my lass to New York over this harebrain scrape she's got us all into."
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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I went with my friend, and as soon as the harebrain saw us she fell on
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I went with my friend, and as soon as the harebrain saw us she fell on
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 11: Paris and Holland Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Then you have your one-offs here and there that you have as a harebrain idea that you want to take to the race track and try it out.
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In 2004 Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal in Britain and clearly no intellectual harebrain, wrote
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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In 2004 Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal in Britain and clearly no intellectual harebrain, wrote
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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