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crackpot

/krak-pot/US // ˈkrækˌpɒt //UK // (ˈkrækˌpɒt) informal //

裂缝,裂纹,裂痕,裂变

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is eccentric, unrealistic, or fanatical.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : eccentric; impractical; fanatical: crackpot ideas.

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Examples

  • There’s denial that it’s happening, there are crackpot theories about what’s going on.

  • Yet disrupting the proceedings or diverting their focus toward some crackpot right-wing media obsession carries its own risks, precisely because the matter is so momentous.

  • It can be easy to write off our conspiracy theorist friends and relatives as crackpots, but science shows things are far more nuanced than that.

  • The society, founded in 1958, was fiercely anti-communist — and fond of crackpot theories.

  • Indeed, Wolf's journey to the crackpot fringe was completed a long time ago.

  • In small steps, the crackpot architectural ideas of the past are becoming built parts of our cities.

  • That hardly sounds like some fire-breathing hard-right crackpot.

  • At an unaccredited college in Utah that was founded by acolytes of right-wing conspiracy-theorist crackpot Cleon Skousen.

  • But according to the Serious Men and Women of Washington, the FRC is not a crackpot outfit.

  • Projective telepathy had only been a crackpot's idea back then.

  • Other machines began to integrate crackpot reports of things sighted in divers places.

  • Calmly they accepted their rise in the world as being due to one of their local townspeople, a crackpot professor.

  • She more or less considered him a crackpot, as far as I remember, you see.

  • Crackpot minorities object loudly at being portrayed in films they don't like.