hare-brain

She had thought me other than I was, thought me hare-brain, imposter, trickster.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

There was one incongruity which surprised him -- a wicker waste-paper basket, so nonsensically out of place in this arid cell, where not the wildest hare-brain could picture any one coming to read or write, that he bestowed upon it a particular, frowning attention, and so discovered the second attractive possession of the room.

The Flirt 1912

There was one incongruity which surprised him -- a wicker waste-paper basket, so nonsensically out of place in this arid cell, where not the wildest hare-brain could picture any one coming to read or write, that he bestowed upon it a particular, frowning attention, and so discovered the second attractive possession of the room.

The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

'If one hare-brain fellow amongst so great a multitude had begun to set upon him, as they were near to do it, no entreaty or means could have prevailed; the fury and tumult of the people was so great.'

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

It needed a curious sort of hare-brain to build up such an organization as we have seen.

A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871

They say that a little hare-brain named Sophronine, is paying court to her on account of her fortune.

Socrates 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

If you want to look for more minority representation you’d do better to look at the Tasmanian Hare-Clark system, better known on the mainland as the hare-brain system.

Matthew Yglesias » Alternative Voting 2010

That’s sum mity fine hare-brain stereotypes ya got runnin’ there, boy.

Think Progress » ThinkFast: September 28, 2006 2006

"You realize, you hare-brain, that we're probably going to die.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984

"You realize, you hare-brain, that we're probably going to die.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984