crackpot

Example Sentences

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Their water stays there — although every few years someone voices a crackpot idea about California importing water from the Columbia River.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025

In the aftermath of his unconventional voyage, Larry Walters assured the American public he wasn't actually a crackpot who had risked life and limb with a hare-brained scheme that was dreamed up on a whim.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024

How can someone be both a steel-witted lawyer and a crackpot?

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2023

Scholars studying the conspiracy theories these people fall for sometimes belabor the issue of whether they really "believe" such crackpot notions.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

He failed, however, to produce much in the way of evidence, and the theory was considered too crackpot to merit serious attention.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson