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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
  • McConnell impressed first-team staff during Liverpool’s 2023 pre-season tour of Singapore with his character, attitude in training and ability to listen and absorb information.
    Andy Jones, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Bizarrely, Cooper's chef character, Adam Jones, was shown in a photo during a montage of actual chefs during a season 3 episode of The Bear last year.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Depending on Trump’s demands, even states that are traditional U.S. partners could conclude that signing any deals with the United States is a fool’s errand because, eventually, Trump will issue even stronger demands in the future.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Trump’s Insane Clown Posse Cabinet is very close to being filled with a cadre of fools and quacks, goons and thugs.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Bex and her team spend each episode tracking down homicidal maniacs.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
  • YouTube videos may offer sentimental types and younger curiosity seekers a means to luxuriate in the Old Way of Doing Things, but only a maniac would truly want to go back to that era.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Bobby Kennedy and his crackpot ideas will do great harm to Americans.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
  • But instead of laughing in Gladden’s face, Barinholtz praised him for earnestly committing to the responsibility of leading deliberations and being kind to the weirdos with whom he was sequestered.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The funky weirdos in Venice or the edgy streetwear of Melrose.
    Allure Editors, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Nutcase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nutcase. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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