lunatic fringe

NOUN

holders of extreme views

Synonyms

WEAK

aficionados energumen extremists fanatical group fanaticos fanatics nuts nympholepts zealots

Example Sentences

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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

Now maybe all this is just the lunatic fringe acting out and nothing will come of it.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021

Her staff, she added with a laugh, “took it as mail from the lunatic fringe and just tossed it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2021

We hear views on television today that are on the lunatic fringe frankly.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2018

Roosevelt must have been made unusually merry by such tidings from Boston, the city which he regarded as particularly prolific in "the men who formed the lunatic fringe in all reform movements."

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by Thayer, William Roscoe