lunatic fringe
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
We hear views on television today that are on the lunatic fringe frankly.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2018
Sure, Jones arguably says more outlandish things from a position that used to be the far lunatic fringe.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2017
Some of our "lunatic fringe" of reformers have been heard to palliate the Huns' atrocities in Belgium, by the plea: "Ah, but they were so perfectly sincere!"
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer
