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Synonyms for hare-brained
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hair-breynd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛərˌbreɪnd |
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Définition of hare-brained
Origin :- also harebrained, 1550s, from hare-brain "giddy or reckless person" (1540s), probably from hare, on notion of "flighty, skittish."
- As in wacky : adj acting crazy
- As in zany : adj crazy, funny
- Harris made a hare-brained attempt to rescue her single-handed.
- Extract from : « Tonio, Son of the Sierras » by Charles King
- He said to himself that he was every bit as thoughtless as their hare-brained guide.
- Extract from : « In Quest of Gold » by Alfred St. Johnston
- You are serving the King with these hare-brained Gascons, are you not?
- Extract from : « Cyrano de Bergerac » by Edmond Rostand
- Nothing could restrain the hare-brained and ungoverned crew.
- Extract from : « Pioneers Of France In The New World » by Francis Parkman, Jr.
- What hare-brained scheme have you got in your mind now, Brent?
- Extract from : « Men, Women and Guns » by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
- What's the use of anybody's grieving for a little, mad, hare-brained thing like me?
- Extract from : « Sharing Her Crime » by May Agnes Fleming
- That fellow Fullerton was once described to me by a Jew as 'hare-brained.'
- Extract from : « A Dream of the North Sea » by James Runciman
- I wonder where the hare-brained savant that writes them can be living?
- Extract from : « Off on a Comet » by Jules Verne
- Europe has had enough of you with your hare-brained schemes and foolish failures.
- Extract from : « The Yellow Crayon » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- They say she is idle and vain and pleasure-loving; they say she is hare-brained and reckless.
- Extract from : « The King in Yellow » by Robert W. Chambers
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