(1) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(2) Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , who is currently positioned second in the polls behind Trump, was given respectful time to explain the medical consensus dismissing what many see as crackpot theories about vaccines and autism – but was only pressed briefly on his own arguably equally crackpot assertion that any form of progressive taxation amounts to socialism and the US should opt for a biblical tithe system instead.
(3) Briefly imprisoned for his firebrand politicking, he later joined a group of exiles in Libya, where Muamar Gadafy was eagerly spreading his crackpot revolutionary ideas among West African dissidents.
(4) Among other pearls of crackpot bigot wisdom, he has allegedly claimed that "black tenants smell and attract vermin."
(5) Now it's time to get on with living, dreaming up more crackpot themes for his phone-in shows and having fun.
(6) At least then we can finally find out which of our crackpot theories is true.
(7) I wonder this often, when I see them rushing from one crackpot diet to another, from one celebrity "guru" to the next, from one fashion age limit to another.
(8) He described C4 as "the home of crackpot conspiracy theories", but said he would "aspire" to work there and there might be a vacancy as "the presenter is very ancient".
(9) Europe had little money to build with, yet in Germany, an increasingly victorious crackpot was handing over unlimited piles of cash to an unknown architect to make sandcastles with.
(10) Was he, asked the New York Times , "a crackpot or the American Tolstoy"?
(11) Gove had a crackpot idea that he and Leeming should appear together, both dressed as some kind of rat, and jump off a high diving board into a swimming pool, and he had offered me a bonus, out of his own pocket, if I could contrive a scenario – somehow related to the week’s news – that would convince the producers this would be a good idea.
(12) Gove had a crackpot idea that he and Leeming should appear together, dressed as rats, and jump from a high diving board I wondered how Leave could rationalise their blind stab in the dark and live with the untruths they had told.
(13) Passon has a pet theory – "it's so crackpot" – that there might be a genetic basis for the creativity and askance perspective often attributed to gay people throughout history.
(14) Anyone who catches this bug is compelled to visit County Clare in search of proof that real life in this quiet backwater is hilariously similar to the afore-not-mentioned series in all its crackpot, rustic eccentricity.
(15) And indeed it is, if your approach to food is completely crackpot served up with a hefty side of overprivilege.
(16) And we know how we’d rather see it spent: not on bureaucracy or bloat or the latest crackpot government scheme, but on you, your family, your future.” Insisting his tax priority in the next parliament is a further uplift in the personal tax allowance and taking more people out of the top rate of tax by raising the threshold, he will say the choice at the election is clearer than ever.
(17) Most troublingly, his promise to create 20,000 extra school places by enabling parents, charities, religious groups and businesses to set up schools at the drop of hat could well mean that every crackpot fundamentalist group – from extreme Islamists to creationist Christians – will be setting up educational institutions.
(18) Is the rule based on some crackpot theory, such as that English should emulate Latin, or that the original meaning of a word is the only correct one?
(19) And I’m not going to respond to every single conspiracy theory that these crackpots online cook up.
(20) He accused him of wasting money on crackpot schemes, including a suggestion that the city could use inflatable dirigible balloons to rescue swimmers who got into difficulties.
Nutbag
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) One acknowledged calling Maureen McDonnell “a nutbag”.
(2) What the EDC ravers most recall are the "nutbags" and "mentalists" who flocked to Gatecrasher , the Sheffield club that was the focus of the trance boom of the late 90s.