as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
children in the neighborhood once regarded the reclusive scientist as a fruitcake
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Recent Examples of fruitcake
The finish is long, sweet, and fruity with lingering fruitcake notes, dark chocolate, and a rich, oaky finish.
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Even to a fruitcake skeptic, the cake recipes in Nature's Candy look delicious.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
Classics like gingerbread, fruitcake, and pumpkin pie wouldn’t be the same without it.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
Someone made a fruitcake with marzipan icing.
—Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Even to a fruitcake skeptic, the cake recipes in Nature's Candy look delicious.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
Classics like gingerbread, fruitcake, and pumpkin pie wouldn’t be the same without it.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
Someone made a fruitcake with marzipan icing.
—Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fruitcake
Noun
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For Mimi Pond, the desire to do a book about the Mitford sisters – six larger-than-life British eccentrics (and one brother) who created a stir in both British and American culture – was obvious.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Animated characters like Tony the Tiger, Count Chocula and Fred Flintstone blurred the line between ads and morning cartoons.—
Alice Callahan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The novel can get busy—Taylor introduces each of Wyeth’s studio mates in the first chapter, then all but abandons half of them to squeeze in more significant characters—but there’s a warmth in the overcrowding.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Try Greek yogurt parfait with granola, mixed berries, and nuts on top.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
19 Oct. 2025
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But the Khourys were different, self-consciously inclusive, inviting often inappropriate local guests—gun nuts, fellow pickleballers, smiling evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, and cabinetmakers—to their gatherings, despite the likely awkwardness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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What are the odds that this crackpot might find the perfect mix of soldiers and suckers for his quest among the late-night crowd at one of L.A.’s timeless-looking Norms joints?—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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In a sane world, someone who claimed that one of the most beneficial accomplishments in human history — the polio vaccine — did more harm than good would be seen as a dangerous crackpot.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
6 July 2025
Noun
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Bits of bacon, mini hot-pockets, nutter butters and doritos.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
16 Jan. 2025
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Its founder was not a member of Congress but Paul Weyrich, a hard-right nutter with theocratic leanings with a fair claim to being the Johnny Appleseed of the New Right, having also co-founded the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.—
Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
27 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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You macabre-loving weirdos can get your fright on in numerous ways around Greater Cincinnati.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
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Every city’s got that one weirdo kid making strange music.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Fruitcake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruitcake. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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