crackpot
Example Sentences
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“Chronovisor” is not a documentary, but it isn’t a film interested in delineating fact and fiction, either, taking a real but evidently crackpot notion as the basis for an immersion into one woman’s pursuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
He contends that the former president’s phone calls with members of the same gang — whom Pence called a “gaggle of crackpot lawyers” — are similarly fair game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
In the aftermath of his unconventional voyage, Larry Walters assured the American public he wasn't actually a crackpot who had risked life and limb with a hare-brained scheme that was dreamed up on a whim.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024
"You can't attach Rudy Giuliani to Sidney Powell's crackpot idea."
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023
Matters in physics have now reached such a pitch that, as Paul Davies noted in Nature, it is "almost impossible for the non-scientist to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
