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harebrained

/hair-breynd/US // ˈhɛərˌbreɪnd //UK // (ˈhɛəˌbreɪnd) //

胡思乱想,胡思乱想的人,胡思乱想的,胡思乱想的家伙

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : giddy; reckless.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.stupid, unthinking

Examples

  • It’s how we got from a guy carping about supposed voter fraud in an election he won, in 2016, to a guy spurring a harebrained effort to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost.

  • With six weeks left in the season, the entire NFC outside of the harebrained NFC East is effectively playing for playoff seeding or draft position.

  • In many circles, “Scientology” has become a stand-in for a certain harebrained strain of Hollywood religiosity.

  • “It was kind of a harebrained scheme,” says a former top Republican House official.

  • Paul, to be fair, is a principled isolationist, which is a harebrained position but not a dishonest one.

  • His harebrained manner rendered him insupportable to me, and my coldness drew upon me his aversion.

  • Then followed an act of heroism and harebrained enterprise which is now the talk of the whole army.

  • The Irish setter was a wild, undisciplined pup, harebrained and headlong after the manner of his breed.

  • I had come with my harebrained followers over a thousand leagues of sea,and for what?

  • She rallied Russian patriotism to her side by advising that no notice be taken of this harebrained suggestion.