How to Use harebrained in a Sentence

harebrained

adjective

• With the way things have gone for the Spurs over the past month, Popovich is open for suggestions, harebrained or not.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2018
• Of all his campaign pledges, none was more appealing to those at his rallies than the border wall, and none was more harebrained.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Leanne elicits the help of her high school boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) and his onetime prison buddy (Craig Robinson) on a harebrained abduction scheme.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• The problems with the White House's harebrained idea here should be obvious to anyone who put more than ten minutes of thought into it before putting pen to paper.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 13 Feb. 2018
• Because more often than not, a harebrained idea can turn into the perfect message that will resonate with other people trying to find the right words to say.
  — Sarah Cook, al.com, 15 July 2019
• But the fans there—as well as the fans in Montreal, so cruelly stripped of their Expos—shouldn’t have to settle for half a team through some harebrained cross-country scheme that features one foot constantly out the door.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 20 June 2019
• This is hardly the first time D’Souza has said something wrong/inflammatory/harebrained.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 May 2018
• This is a far better approach to increasing revenue than a harebrained attempt to increase monthly active users through the alleged allure of longer tweets.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• So we don’t get lost in harebrained dreams or computer programs taken for reality.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2018
• The cross-country cycling tour was my grandfather's harebrained scheme for exploring his adoptive homeland.
  — Daniel De Vise, Chicago Reader, 21 June 2018
• Ed Whelan freestyled a harebrained theory about mistaken identity on Twitter right in front of everyone.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• Sundry underworld types scratch and sniff in pursuit, but their harebrained motives — like the money itself — are mere tools with which to paint a pitch-black picture of Chinese economic frustration set against the allure of Western opportunity.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, miamiherald, 14 Feb. 2018
• To be sure, proposing to use an adversary’s lines of communication seems to be a harebrained idea indicative of blundering naivete and hubris, but accounts differ on who suggested it, and the plan seems to never have been enacted anyway.
  — vanityfair.com, 1 June 2017
• Now Supervisor Aaron Peskin, last seen mounting a harebrained scheme to prevent companies from offering lunch to their employees, is back in the news with another empty gesture.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2018
• Making matters worse was Mr. Modi’s harebrained decision two years ago to invalidate nearly 90% of India’s currency by value, which gutted many small businesses.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• Andersen is unduly harsh toward the harebrained idealists of the ’60s, perhaps overreacting to his own youthful gullibility.
  — Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2017
• Despite its weighty emotional toll, the new album wouldn’t be a true Thundercat project without Bruner’s kaleidoscopic musical style and propensity for pairing morbidly serious topics with harebrained humor.
  — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• One possibility being floated by conservatives is a particularly harebrained scheme to undermine Social Security, in the guise of helping people get through the crisis.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 11 May 2020
• Financing ostensibly harebrained schemes is an Affeldt specialty.
  — Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 4 Aug 2024