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

All that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt.

From BBC

Now maybe all this is just the lunatic fringe acting out and nothing will come of it.

From Salon

“Without those top-notch ‘lunatic fringe’ Jeep people down in the trenches, the Wrangler would have failed as an icon years ago,” he said.

From New York Times

Her staff, she added with a laugh, “took it as mail from the lunatic fringe and just tossed it.”

From Los Angeles Times