lunatic fringe
Example Sentences
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Because of that, “no matter how much McCarthy bent over backwards to accommodate a lunatic fringe, there’s going to be someone who didn’t like him,” Ornstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
All that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
Now maybe all this is just the lunatic fringe acting out and nothing will come of it.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2021
Unfortunately for the lunatic fringe, however, those events were just horse races:
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2018
Roosevelt had, many years before, spoken of the "lunatic fringe" which clings to the skirts of every sincere reform.
From Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Lester Pearson
