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as in psychotic
having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind
some crackpot driver drove the wrong way down the highway
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2
as in foolish
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
a crackpot scheme to get rich quick
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as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
everyone is tolerant of the town crackpot, a man who never hurt anyone
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Recent Examples of crackpot
The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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.
—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
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The book’s power comes from showing a field in flux and reminding us that ideas have their own life cycles: from crackpot theory to utter embarrassment to real possibility to the stuff of textbooks.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crackpot
Adjective
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The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.—
Peter Hermann,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2023
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Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.—
Thomas Saccente,
Arkansas Online,
17 Jan. 2023
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In other words, the labor market and the economy remain strong and solid on their own, but could be undone by foolish economic policies that our politicians might implement.—
Harry Holzer,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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The grade partly reflects the inevitable hot streak that would make a lower grade look foolish.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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My dedication, to help the waifs and strays and eccentrics of the music world together, continues to this day.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2024
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Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
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With his shock of spiky hair and adrenaline rushes, Smith turns a corporate villain into a lunatic new-wave frontman.—
Charles McNultyTheater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2023
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The first personality is the lunatic, chaotic artist, with no limits.—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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There are no more stupid questions and an open, supportive, and curious culture evolves.—
Darpan Munjal,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The cliché that Americans are stupid and lazy is as pernicious as the cliché that teenagers are, well, stupid and lazy.—
John Hodgman,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Related Stories Movies 'Any Given Sunday': THR's 1999 Review For first-time viewers, the carnival of characters which gives the series its richness for addicts such as this viewer, may seem initially confusing.—
Gail Williams,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Jan. 2025
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Not many non-performing contemporary songwriters are quite interesting enough to sustain a 90-minute documentary, but then, not many are Diane Warren, one of the great characters of modern Hollywood.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Contrary to popular belief, peanuts are actually not nuts.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
30 Mar. 2023
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Nonetheless, April 5, 2022, was nuts.—
Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Mar. 2023
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The Couple Next Door The Bottom Line PG-13 partner-swapping upstaged by silly thriller subplots.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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In the unreliable reality the older Owen inhabits, his favorite childhood show was in fact silly, sloppy, and decidedly low-stakes.—
Samantha Allen,
Them,
14 Jan. 2025
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