crackpot
noun
crack·pot
ˈkrak-ˌpät 
plural crackpots
: one given to eccentric or wildly foolish notions
crackpot
adjective
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Examples of crackpot in a Sentence
Some crackpot in a clown suit is out there directing traffic.
everyone is tolerant of the town crackpot, a man who never hurt anyone
Recent Examples on the Web
But what begins as a naturalistic portrait of an alcoholic loner soon transforms into something far more sinister and turbulent once Julia gets caught up in a crackpot scheme to kidnap her neighbor’s son for ransom.
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Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Witness the presidential campaign of anti-vaccine crackpot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the dangerous attack on medical science by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his quack henchman, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
Politics Tim Ryan lost a Senate seat to J.D. Vance, but learned this: Vance really is ‘weird’
July 30, 2024
Vance’s openly crackpot assertion that people who do not procreate are somehow less sane, and less American, than people who do is most definitely weird.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
Add the diatribes, the unrelenting conviction that the 2020 election was fraudulent, the crackpot economic pronouncements, the war-ending, wand-waving dreams.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Witness the presidential campaign of anti-vaccine crackpot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the dangerous attack on medical science by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his quack henchman, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
Politics Tim Ryan lost a Senate seat to J.D. Vance, but learned this: Vance really is ‘weird’
July 30, 2024
Vance’s openly crackpot assertion that people who do not procreate are somehow less sane, and less American, than people who do is most definitely weird.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
Add the diatribes, the unrelenting conviction that the 2020 election was fraudulent, the crackpot economic pronouncements, the war-ending, wand-waving dreams.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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“Crackpot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crackpot. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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