Sentence examples for the crackpot from inspiring English sources
noun
An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.
- Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.
The crackpot, Wernher von Braun, was celebrated as a visionary.
(This is not to say that amateur inventors don't fit the crackpot profile in other ways.
But Pound was after far more than historical verisimilitude; and here the crackpot took over.
It is not, then, an unerring product sense that distinguishes Levy from the crackpot.
The crackpot fans In March 1992 debt-ridden Aldershot FC played their last game, against Cardiff.
Could Ahmadinejad promise that this atrocity would never happen again, I asked the crackpot leader of Iran?
And the country's president, Thabo Mbeki, was promoting the crackpot theory that HIV did not cause AIDS.
The crackpot Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, who promotes the ethnopluralist doctrine "Eurasianism," has flown to Paris to meet Benoist.
The crackpot mysticism about the League Of Shadows (the ninja cult where Batman learned his skills) distracts from what otherwise seems like a hard-boiled urban story.
The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has been accused of wasting more than £15m on consultants advising on the "crackpot privatisation" of the probation service.
IN RICH countries, financial services on the whole work remarkably well, despite the exotic salaries, the crackpot deals and the occasional bust.
