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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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

Moreover, there were the well-meaning but impracticable people who constituted what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "lunatic fringe" of reform movements.

From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell