How to Use crackpot in a Sentence

crackpot

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  • Some crackpot in a clown suit is out there directing traffic.
  • Then there were the crackpot claims that Palin was not the real mother of Trig.
    — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • All the signs had been there that Brooks was a dangerous crackpot.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 7 Jan. 2021
  • Yet the most crackpot thing about Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) might be her singing.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The Filipino Fox Rodrigo Duterte is not the crackpot he is sometimes made to seem.
    — Alastair McIndoe, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • But 15 years ago, all of that sounded like crackpot raving.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • So, my command-and-control junky friends, don’t give me any sob stories of how the crackpots on your team have slowed you down.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Irving is perceived as a crackpot, or maybe just a goofball.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But the scientists involved in the project considered them crackpots and doggedly tried to negate the idea of flying saucers.
    — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Fun fact: Every year, at least a dozen Bigfoot movies are made, most of them either horror movies or crackpot docs.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • So requiring the site to post anything any crackpot has to say is in no way a First Amendment violation.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Pence: Sadly, the president was surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • They were organized by the same crackpot who held press conferences last November to claim that former Gov. Matt Bevin had the election stolen from him.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Tremendous efforts have been made to shout down the truth, and the same crackpots, self-promoters, liars, and failures, are quoted repeatedly in the media.
    — David Dobbs, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2011
  • Mick Mulvaney didn't need the rise of Donald Trump to become a crackpot who would be marginalized in any sane democratic republic.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • The idea that Harding might have been assassinated wasn’t confined to craven opportunists or the crackpot fringe.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Now this will have had most British people laughing into their tea because over here, Charles, Prince of Wales is regarded as out-of-touch, arrogant, and a bit of a crackpot.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2011
  • It was agreed that Spook was just another smart-ass bumpkin until, when the boys were in middle school, he was elected to the legislature and served two full terms as a renowned crackpot, in the papers all the time.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Joe Rogan may sometimes go too far in promoting crackpot ideas about vaccines.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Social media lit up with theories, some crackpot, some not.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2024
  • McBride unfolds the efforts to rescue Dodo, plus side plots involving crackpot business schemes and sleazy bigwigs, with his trademark skill, brio, and frank talk.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • That’s the inevitable outcome when a crackpot conspiracy theorist who spouts nothing but lies is given a platform like the one Kennedy now has.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
  • He's seen a flurry of reaction to his plans, with detractors labeling him a crackpot for planning the launch in a homemade contraption and his belief that the world is flat.
    — Pat Graham, Michael Balsamo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Michael Farkas, who founded electric vehicle charging company Blink Charging in 1998, said for years he was viewed as a crackpot.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 14 Dec. 2020
  • This also means that the BOG regularly fields a number of outlandish, crackpot proposals that would never pass muster.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Unlike a lot of self-help gurus, yogis and crackpot messiahs who rose to prominence in the early-1970s age of weird, Geller endured and his cultural impact proved both singular and lasting.
    — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • 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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