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 Governments justified spending willy-nilly with crackpot ideas like Modern Monetary Theory. — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 16 May 2021 Cheney is being purged for her stubborn refusal to accept -- much less peddle -- the dangerous, crackpot lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. — Arkansas Online, 9 May 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 Once dismissed as a crackpot belief system undeserving of serious attention, QAnon has emerged as a national security priority in the wake of the Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021 The society, founded in 1958, was fiercely anti-communist - and fond of crackpot theories. — Erick Trickey, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021 Much like the one Alabama needs right now — because our crackpot politicians are causing a scene again and people are getting hurt. — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 9 Jan. 2021 His theories, some of which scientists viewed as bordering on the crackpot, were exactly what the president wanted to hear: The virus is overblown, the number of deaths is exaggerated, testing is overrated, lockdowns do more harm than good. — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020 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

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