crackpot

[ US /ˈkɹækˌpɑt/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈækpɒt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a whimsically eccentric person
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How To Use crackpot In A Sentence

  • Most of them are not wealthy or trained or competent, and a lot are just crackpots.
  • People are trying to keek their jobs and homes, and noone wants to hear any more about a crackpot preacher. Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/6/08
  • Calling Tolstoy a crackpot is not only nonsense, it displays moral obtusity. Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?
  • People on either side of this ‘argument’ are not crackpots; they are people with opinions, just like Harvey.
  • I am amazed that such a crackpot scheme could be seriously entertained.
  • In this case, is someone guilty of that old demon "liberal media bias" if they call a crackpot a crackpot because that would be the pro Obama position? John Milewski: Unfair to the Unbalanced: When Fair and Balanced is Not Required
  • He is no conservative, he's a crackpot - a tinhorn autocrat who has mistaken totalitarianism for conservatism.
  • Also, you've repeatedly dissembled when challenged to address the crackpottery of his claim that Christian scientists who accept evolution are harming science education. Berlinski stirring the pot
  • It's a little crackpot, but the whole thing is so damned good-natured you can't give it much fault for being an agglomeration of genre clichés.
  • Los Angeles was a sunny, easygoing mecca for crackpot religions and fantasies endorsed by the movie industry.
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