(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.
Nutcase
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet I’m edging towards a hardline approach, as the nutcases of Isis and the American far-right show the end product of free speech and religious tolerance.
(2) Though Ukip did appear to be a one-pony trick; apart from some unreconstructed nutcases, they had little to offer by way of leadership apart from Nigel Farage , an alarmingly candid populist boozer.
(3) The navy and air force crave another Libya, where they "bravely" spent half a billion pounds replacing a nutcase with a bunch of bandits.
(4) "Well," she says, "the reaction is fairly split between people who think you're just a mad, attention-seeking nutcase, and the people who come up and say 'go for it'.
(5) But for Jewish people to be so quick to be thin-skinned is not good either, and is in danger of seeming coercive.Baddiel’s throwaway parenthesis on Israel’s being “deemed the nutcase pariah-state du jour”, is frankly disreputable, and gives the impression that he is “playing the antisemitism card” with more in mind than the banal misspeakings of a few footballers.
(6) Phillip Goodall Norwich • David Baddiel suggests that “the left” has become even “more ambiguous” about Jews, because it has deemed Israel the “nutcase pariah state du jour”, thereby implying that it is antisemitic.
(7) A few years ago, and I know this from personal experience, you were scoffed at as a nutcase if you talked at all about this meeting.
(8) Every two-bit nutcase is declared “an existential menace”, a threat to “national security”, a saboteur of our “civilised values and way of life”.
(9) But it points to a key problem as regards the wider apprehension of antisemitism, which is that the left – which, in the end, is where anti-racist ideas start and trickle down even to people like Dave Whelan and Mario Balotelli – has always been a little bit ambiguous about Jews (an ambiguity that has clearly become even more ambiguous since Israel was deemed the nutcase pariah state du jour).
(10) Nicki It used to be that if you said, "anyone and everyone can and should learn this" you sounded like a total nutcase.
(11) Campaign strategies this time around have included an acrostic poem attacking a local Fairfax Regional paper, the Mandurah Mail, for being “Malicious Asshole Nutcases Dickheads” (it goes on, but we won’t).
(12) But there’s a human being on the track – he’s obviously a bit of a nutcase, because who walks on to an F1 circuit, you wouldn’t walk on to a motorway.” He added: “You can’t control that.
(13) Therefore, "the artist should be required to share responsibility along with the nutcase who pulled the trigger".
(14) Phil Spector was a full-on nutcase who was writing songs when he was 15.