: having a brain of a specified kind—used in combination
featherbrained
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebOther leaders were very bad (looking at you, Anders Tegnell) but nobody else in rich countries matched Trump's combination of maliciousness and addle-brained incompetence. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 8 Nov. 2021 No new facts are necessary to demonstrate that Trump was a sulky, smooth-brained baby, prone to fits of pouty anger, enabled by a coterie of vile liars and violent stooges. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 2 July 2022 While this shrinking was observed across these migratory species, new research suggests that birds with bigger brains—relative to their body size—aren’t shrinking like their smaller-brained kin. Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022 Beautifully clean-brained is an excellent description of Moly. Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022 Scott wasn’t sure what to make of McDowell, an overstuffed pillow of a 30-year-old stoner who came off as a soft-brained teen. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022 The problem with woo is the mindset: a credulous, mush-brained approach to subjects that require study, hard thinking, and real evidence. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Dec. 2021 Told mostly in the form of letters from an old Bigfoot hunter to his estranged son, these issues found The Department of Truth mixing heart-rending human emotion with its big-brained ideas about the nature of subjective reality. Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021 For 40 years, theater critics and audiences have tried to make sense of the hairball-brained plot of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1980s musical.oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021 See More