lunatic fringe
Example Sentences
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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
Her staff, she added with a laugh, “took it as mail from the lunatic fringe and just tossed it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
Unfortunately for the lunatic fringe, however, those events were just horse races:
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2018
Roosevelt must have been made unusually merry by such tidings from Boston, the city which he regarded as particularly prolific in "the men who formed the lunatic fringe in all reform movements."
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by Thayer, William Roscoe
