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
• After talking to friends, chefs, historians, at least one architect, pasta manufacturers and his team, Pashman’s pasta project eventually went from harebrained hobby to its current status as an actual product anyone in the U.S. can purchase and eat.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• 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: 10 Nov 2024