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How to pronounce crackpot in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball
Type of eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball

Examples of crackpot

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Coming from anyone but Anil Agarwal such arguments might be considered crackpot.
From the newscientist.com
More burned people alive for his religious crackpot views and then died for them.
From the guardian.co.uk
On the other hand, the movie always had poky and crackpot drawbacks of its own.
From the washingtontimes.com
Maybe they'll have you on their radio show to discuss your new crackpot theory.
From the scienceblogs.com
In the beginning of the season, she came across like a trouble-making crackpot.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Total crackpot, but his platform is something that i could actually get behind.
From the guardian.co.uk
Variations on brain in a vat thought experiments are neither crackpot nor fringe.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Science has always struggled to sift crackpot ideas from genuine maverick genius.
From the newscientist.com
In many ways, this is worse than India's neighbours or within its crackpot states.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • A whimsically eccentric person
  • This is a list of episodes for the anime series Eureka Seven. The series ran for a total of fifty episodes, as well as a recap special titled "Navigation ray=out", which recaps the first half of the series. ...
  • "Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false. A "cranky" belief is so wildly at variance with commonly accepted belief as to be ludicrous. ...
  • Crackpots is an Atari 2600 game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Activision in 1983. Crackpots was also bundled in with the Activision Anthology release in 2002 for the PlayStation 2.