lamebrained

Related to lamebrained: dolt

lamebrained

Utterly foolish or poorly thought out. He's always got some lamebrained scheme to get rich.
See also: lamebrain
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lamebrained

verb
See lamebrain
See also: lamebrain
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • lamebrain
  • lame-brain
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • (I've) got to go
  • out of one's
  • save someone's skin
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • other than
  • other than (something)
References in periodicals archive
And if, as I was saying last week, that proposal is lamebrained, then surely this one is completely barmy.
George Tyndale: LAW CAN'T STOP YOUNG SMOKERS
I was OK with that, it's cool, you know, modern science for dummies, but then totally lamebrained stuff was mixed in.
Less than awesome film haunts her
HenThe character: Lanky and slightly lamebrained diddy.
THE BROON SHOW; JINGS! Crivens! Whit a week it's been for Dundee publishers DC Thomson. On Monday, Oor Wullie was named greatest Scottish icon. And yesterday, Thomson's boss Davie Donaldson told about his dream of The Broons becoming a TV show. Here we cast a director's eye over 11 possible stars ..
Leeds United chaps, though, will be kicking themselves for not getting their Turner Prize (for scampish stuff passing itself off as art among the lamebrained) entry in early enough.
Why Figo will eat humble pie for Christmas dinner
It's an unusually intelligent, self-reflexive, refrigerated comedy whose buff, shimmering body-not to mention the daredevil performance by actor Christian Bale as Bateman-should impress all but the most timid, lamebrained critics.
MORE THAN ZERO
This news did not grace the pages of PN either, and, typically, the editor mumbled some lamebrained excuse for this oversight.
Forging Ahead by Looking Back
Browsing the May/June issue, I was sorely tempted to dismiss your writers as a bunch of lamebrained liberal arts types, the sort who took only the two science courses required for graduation and whined all the while that they couldn't see the use for it.
Mad scientist
"Then they come along with a lamebrained scheme that they are going to provide services that the city owes you," he observed.
BID fever not spreading in Long Island City