Adjective : a madcap scheme. From Dictionary.com.
If a story every deserved the word madcap, it is Steven Gould's 'Peaches for Mad Molly'. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The 1989 Annual World's Best SF - Donald A. Wollheim] Reference
The fool of whom Mr. Razumov had thought was the rich and festive student known as madcap Kostia. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
A fit of unworldliness, be almost as reckless as the creature he calls madcap and would rather call countess. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
To make amends, will you use the word "madcap" in a post next week?. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Non-Quiz!] Reference
Really, is there any reason why the word "madcap" did not appear in today's post?. From Wordnik.com. [Indulgence: How Much is Too Much?] Reference
The overall tone is "madcap," which does fit the off-kilter medical emergency side of it. From Wordnik.com. [March 1st, 2009] Reference
What kind of madcap pranks will those crazy Trek engineers pull on their team riders next?. From Wordnik.com. [Bolts and Nuts: The Making of a Classic] Reference
I can think of few books that I want to read that I can also call "madcap," but this is certainly one. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
And reading the description of this one, you realize that "madcap" and "insane" don't actually do justice to Millar. From Wordnik.com. [Books Received: March 30, 2009] Reference
I haven't read the issue, I'm going by the description above that he's "madcap", comparing him to Bugs Bunny, the sense of humor, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Daniel Way’s Deadpool | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
And much of it is committed to the kind of madcap schemes that would get nowhere with most of Britain's planners. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Surprisingly, the address used to be home to students, who neighbour Carol Ingleton, 62, remembers as 'madcap' and 'jokers'. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
See the 35th anniversary production of Chris Simmons 'madcap' 'Evening at a British Music Hall' today at Touchstone Theatre, 321 E. From Wordnik.com. Reference
She’s the kind of madcap, spontaneous spirit who loves to walk barefoot in the park in the middle of winter. From Wordnik.com. [Elliott Gets Lost in the Park��� Simon���s Barefoot Stuck in ���63] Reference
A strange "madcap," one Robert Innes, who, according to a printed broadside now before me, was a pauper in St. Peter's Hospital, 1787?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850] Reference
"Even for you it was a madcap thing to do," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
He is off on some madcap expedition, you may be sure. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
Harp Spillman doesn't have demons; he has madcap consequences. From Wordnik.com. [The Madcap Side of Sobering Up] Reference
He may even die from the effects of this prolonged immersion and madcap exposure. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
They see no new, competitive ideas -- only madcap expense and neglect of people who can't pay. From Wordnik.com. [BAD MEDICINE] Reference
We all know that, like any really good joke, there's truth at its core -- a method to the madcap. From Wordnik.com. [Chez Pazienza: Restoring Sanity: You In or You Out?] Reference
Oh, those madcap Pentagon bureaucrats and the zany horde of generals and admirals who go with them!. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: The American Way of War Quiz] Reference
"Nettie," asked Mother Hilman in her even, placid tones, "what do you think of that young madcap Wilbur Hill?". From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
Betty, wild madcap Betty, would want talking to, and training and putting into the way in which she should go. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"I always feel nervous when I hear that Doctor Beulah wants to see me," remarked Laura, the madcap of the school. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
In her duty to me she is all that I could ask, but in every other respect her madcap moods seem but to grow upon her. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
"She is a Miss Rostrevor, daughter of a very old Irish family, and as wild a madcap as ever came out of the Emerald Isle.". From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
(Soundbite of music by Stereo Total) BRADY: There is a madcap cosmopolitan quality to everything the band Stereo Total does. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmopop: European Music with a Global Flavor] Reference
In my family, we love to throw caution to the wind and go on madcap adventures, so long as said adventures are suitable for both. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Hartley: Colorado's craziest curmudgeon's colossal castle] Reference
But later on in the day, in the evening, when the lamps were alight, she had crept away by herself to wonder where madcap Betty was. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
But knowing only by rumor of these matters, the jester from abroad looked hard at her, the first madcap in petticoats he had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Linklater's first stab at "Before Sunset" tried it Hollywood's way: it put Celine and Jesse on madcap travels and married them in the end. From Wordnik.com. [THE DIVINE MISS DELPY] Reference
Aline, rosy, vivacious, and more petulant than usual, looked very much the madcap Mademoiselle de Corandeuil had reproached her with being. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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