lunatic fringe
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
By playing on the sentimentality of this same "lunatic fringe," the German intriguers almost succeeded in driving through a bill to stop this traffic.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by Thayer, William Roscoe