How to Use crackpot in a Sentence

crackpot

noun

• Some crackpot in a clown suit is out there directing traffic.
• Then there were the crackpot claims that Palin was not the real mother of Trig.
  — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• All the signs had been there that Brooks was a dangerous crackpot.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 7 Jan. 2021
• Yet the most crackpot thing about Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) might be her singing.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Filipino Fox Rodrigo Duterte is not the crackpot he is sometimes made to seem.
  — Alastair McIndoe, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• But 15 years ago, all of that sounded like crackpot raving.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• So, my command-and-control junky friends, don’t give me any sob stories of how the crackpots on your team have slowed you down.
  — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
• Irving is perceived as a crackpot, or maybe just a goofball.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 17 Jan. 2018
• But the scientists involved in the project considered them crackpots and doggedly tried to negate the idea of flying saucers.
  — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
• Fun fact: Every year, at least a dozen Bigfoot movies are made, most of them either horror movies or crackpot docs.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• So requiring the site to post anything any crackpot has to say is in no way a First Amendment violation.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2022
• Pence: Sadly, the president was surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• Much like the one Alabama needs right now — because our crackpot politicians are causing a scene again and people are getting hurt.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 9 Jan. 2021
• Many historians treat the Populist revolt as a crackpot movement that fell by the wayside.
  — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• They were organized by the same crackpot who held press conferences last November to claim that former Gov. Matt Bevin had the election stolen from him.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2020
• Tremendous efforts have been made to shout down the truth, and the same crackpots, self-promoters, liars, and failures, are quoted repeatedly in the media.
  — David Dobbs, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2011
• Mick Mulvaney didn't need the rise of Donald Trump to become a crackpot who would be marginalized in any sane democratic republic.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2017
• Big-voiced Anise Ritchie is regal as Marie, the town crackpot who transforms into Ella’s fairy godmother.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2022
• The idea that Harding might have been assassinated wasn’t confined to craven opportunists or the crackpot fringe.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
• Now this will have had most British people laughing into their tea because over here, Charles, Prince of Wales is regarded as out-of-touch, arrogant, and a bit of a crackpot.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2011
• It was agreed that Spook was just another smart-ass bumpkin until, when the boys were in middle school, he was elected to the legislature and served two full terms as a renowned crackpot, in the papers all the time.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Joe Rogan may sometimes go too far in promoting crackpot ideas about vaccines.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
• McBride unfolds the efforts to rescue Dodo, plus side plots involving crackpot business schemes and sleazy bigwigs, with his trademark skill, brio, and frank talk.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• That’s the inevitable outcome when a crackpot conspiracy theorist who spouts nothing but lies is given a platform like the one Kennedy now has.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
• He's seen a flurry of reaction to his plans, with detractors labeling him a crackpot for planning the launch in a homemade contraption and his belief that the world is flat.
  — Pat Graham, Michael Balsamo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2018
• Michael Farkas, who founded electric vehicle charging company Blink Charging in 1998, said for years he was viewed as a crackpot.
  — Matt McFarland, CNN, 14 Dec. 2020
• This also means that the BOG regularly fields a number of outlandish, crackpot proposals that would never pass muster.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2024
• Unlike a lot of self-help gurus, yogis and crackpot messiahs who rose to prominence in the early-1970s age of weird, Geller endured and his cultural impact proved both singular and lasting.
  — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The claim that state legislatures may have powers to intervene in disputed elections is not, in fact, a crackpot theory.
  — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2020
• But if this documentary celebrates a crackpot, Mr. Friedkin is his match.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024