What is "harebrained"

Usage examples of "harebrained".

On a dark, chilly morning, several days hence, we made final preparations to set off on whatever harebrained quest Bayard had planned.

Lord, but at the thought of his staid, practical, harebrained wife he was growing hard.

To explore her excited, impractical, and as harebrained as possible naked in his bed.

I am certainly not going to set out on some harebrained expedition into the desert.

I am tempted to cripple him a little, to keep him from carrying out this harebrained scheme.

Reggie might be correct in assuming that he had remained close to the stairs and would respond to my call, but it seemed equally likely to me that he had gone off on some harebrained search for another exit.

Spinner of Darkness was a harebrained feat of madness in the Skyshiels.

Thawed enough to relax stiff ideals and his death grip on harebrained histrionics, he stood down, his stout hand released from his sword grip.

Then there were the Hoovers - the ivory-white Hoovers flushed with all the benefits of a doting society, the people of intelligence and position who slid through life plucking up the breaks as they dropped in their laps - who had nothing better to do with their lives than indulge their fantasies with harebrained schemes and crackpot notions and then feel they had the legal right to inflict their sick delusions on decent, law-abiding people.

Kan is too clever to devise such a harebrained plan that would gain him so little.

Besides, if he went back to Holland within a day or so, there would surely be no need for his harebrained scheme to be put into action.

But our hunches are grounded-in years of experience in defense work, not some harebrained idea.

He indicated that the System would solve this little problem without any help from harebrained professors who thought that whole subway trains could jump off into the fourth dimension.

We support a lot of schemes that turn out to be harebrained, in the hope that some of them just might work out after all.

House of Daiviz, who had offended both Kindred and Ehleenee by marrying a woman of common blood whose kin worshiped neither Sun nor Son, then had spent the most of his life squandering her fortune on harebrained commercial ventures.