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CRACK-BRAINED

Traducere în limba română

crack-brained adjectiv

1. smintit, scrântit, tâmpit, ţicnit, sărit.

2. lipsit de sens, absurd, fără noimă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

While I, quoth the other loudly, do maintain the good sense and extraordinary wisdom of that most learned William against the crack-brained fantasies of the muddy Scotchman, who hath hid such little wit as he has under so vast a pile of words, that it is like one drop of Gascony in a firkin of ditch-water.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could plainly discover whence one family derives a long chin; why a second has abounded with knaves for two generations, and fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be sharpers; whence it came, what Polydore Virgil says of a certain great house, Nec vir fortis, nec foemina casta; how cruelty, falsehood, and cowardice, grew to be characteristics by which certain families are distinguished as much as by their coats of arms; who first brought the pox into a noble house, which has lineally descended scrofulous tumours to their posterity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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