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 Then there were the crackpot claims that Palin was not the real mother of Trig. — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 12 July 2022 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 But the company has since halted the project following a mass resignation of its own advisers, who panned it as a crackpot dystopian fantasy that could militarize schools and get children hurt. — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 6 June 2022 His predictions interact in an amusing way with his crackpot obsessions, which include pesticides, supersonic air travel, and the Catholic Church. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 Both voices, however, offer crackpot visions of a New Heaven, a New Earth, unmistakably doomed. — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022 Joe Rogan may sometimes go too far in promoting crackpot ideas about vaccines. — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022 All the signs had been there that Brooks was a dangerous crackpot. — Kyle Whitmire, al, 7 Jan. 2021 Well, yes: Lending the institutional voice of a prestigious publication to a racist crackpot theory and then letting others write in to contest it is worthy of criticism. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 15 Nov. 2021 See More

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