crackbrained
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of crackbrained
First recorded in 1625–35; crackbrain + -ed 3
Example Sentences
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Shafer pictures Shapp as an "eccentric" whose proposals are either "crackbrained" or "crazy."
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run.
From Time Magazine Archive
To show business, the barter idea sounded as crackbrained as opening a theatre at the bottom of a well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of the State had always assumed that the canal was a crackbrained project which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is late, it is nineteen-nineteen— go to sleep, his cries are a lullaby; his jabbering is a sleep-well-my-baby; he is a crackbrained messenger.
From Sour Grapes A Book of Poems by Williams, William Carlos
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