lunatic fringe

NOUN

holders of extreme views

Synonyms

WEAK

aficionados energumen extremists fanatical group fanaticos fanatics nuts nympholepts zealots

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

We hear views on television today that are on the lunatic fringe frankly.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2018

Some of them were men of intelligible social and religious tenets; others furnished the "lunatic fringe" of the reform movement.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved