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crackpot
[ krak-pot ]
noun
- a person who is eccentric, unrealistic, or fanatical.
adjective
- eccentric; impractical; fanatical:
crackpot ideas.
crackpot
/ ˈ°ì°ùæ°ìËŒ±èÉ’³Ù /
noun
- an eccentric person; crank
adjective
- usually prenominal eccentric; crazy
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of crackpot1
Example Sentences
Their water stays there — although every few years someone voices a crackpot idea about California importing water from the Columbia River.
As Hannah Arendt said, “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.â€
He's found the perfect instrument for his revenge in Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a conspiracy theorist with a whole lot of crackpot ideas but who, like Trump, believes that he knows better than scientists.
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.â€
That group, once dismissed as crackpots, allegedly planned to arrest MPs in Berlin on a day it also dubbed "Day X".
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