crackpot

Example Sentences

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Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s crackpot surgeon-general, refused to wear a mask at a meeting with a state legislator even after she told him she was a breast cancer patient with an elevated susceptibility to infection.

From Los Angeles Times

Both voices, however, offer crackpot visions of a New Heaven, a New Earth, unmistakably doomed.

From Los Angeles Times

Truman didn’t let on in 1948, but in 1962, he was so put off by L.A. that he said, “I’m dressed, and packed up for the trip to the U.S. no. 1 ‘crackpot’ city.”

From Los Angeles Times

"Welch's followers were seen as crackpots, deplorables, losers who did not fit into the modern world."

From Salon

Pugnacious and direct in his bid to make Ms. Daniels seem like a crackpot, Mr. Avenatti asked whether she believed in a “haunted” doll that could talk and calls her “Mommy, Mommy.”

From New York Times