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Recent Examples of nutcase Although My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) was made in 2020, before Libs of TikTok exposed school-teacher lunacy, writer-director Caroline Vignal proves prescient about the eccentricity that goes deeper than the profession’s nutcase radicalism. Armond White, National Review, 27 July 2022 Ma Seok-do (Ma) is still with the Geumcheon Police Major Crimes Unit, arriving to help his fellow officers deal with a knife-wielding nutcase who’s taken hostages at a corner store. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 June 2022 From there, the premiere follows Mildred’s first day at the hospital and establishes that everyone is some kind of nutcase, and there’s a visit from the governor of California (Vincent D’Onofrio) because his entire re-election campaign somehow rests on an underfunded mental hospital. Darren Franich, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2020 None of this is to deny the Republican lurch to the extreme right and the wild popularity of conspiracy theories and nutcase politics. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 24 May 2022 That is enough to prompt scheduling a video chat with a purported demonologist (Laura Heisler) who does not seem a nutcase or charlatan. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022 Video testimony provided other repudiations of Eastman’s nutcase legal theory. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 June 2022 The Trump factor alone suggests that the odds are high Republicans will nominate some nutcase candidates in winnable races who make Marjorie Taylor Greene seem like a moderate. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022 That’s the date when nutcase Congressman Paul Gosar posted that hideous tweet about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutcase
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • How did the character of Joel—who is not a straightforward psychopath, if there is such a thing—come to you?
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
  • As 40,000 acres burn, animals are incinerated alive and the human death toll rises, only a psychopath would look for advantage.
    Sabrina Haake, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Some residents have complained that the new buildings are out of character and have led to a decrease in parking spots in residential areas.
    Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • There’s just no telling how far the Moana 2 cast will go to perfectly capture their characters.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Before the show was over, a Black pastor from Detroit named Lorenzo Sewell approached the podium and made a damn fool of himself.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In my view, politics have become so closely intertwined with the way people see themselves that separating the two can feel like a fool’s errand.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And yet a half-century later, producer Lorne Michaels and his merry maniacs are still at it.
    Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Isaiah Stewart has become a defensive maniac as a full-time center.
    Fred Katz, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The outfit has been populated with some of the worst crackpots and conspiracy theorists, and its anti-Western orientation is matched only by its reliable antisemitism.
    The Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Lucius becomes a slave and is in the charge of crafty Macrinus, and soon becomes entertainment for the masses and two dangerously crackpot twin Roman emperors — Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger).
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Texturally, the series is best categorized as a psycho-thriller, but the design of the episodes is never redundant.
    WIRED, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Another summer, another hook-wielding psycho killer — and maybe some familiar faces too.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • Won’t everyone gawk at that weirdo claiming a table for one?
    Angela Haupt, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The film is a fish-out-of-water caper, as two exotic art weirdos attempt to charm ranchers and perplexed local officials.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Nutcase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nutcase. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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