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Meanings of crackpot in English
Catalan
poca-solta Spanish
estrafalario Synonyms
Examples for "nut"
Examples for "nut"
1
Put a nut in the place of the stone in the cherries.
2
Grafting is widely used in plants, especially in fruit and nut crops.
3
Sorry-justneed to test it. I gave the nut a firm bounce.
4
Many cocoa-nut trees were seen in the lower parts of the island.
5
A great nut placement will allow dramatic shifts in direction of pull.
1
Last year's debut model could crank through 600 billion operations per second.
2
Needless to say, Bennewitz was treated by many as simply a crank.
3
He had attempted in vain to take the pedal off the crank.
4
Of course, I may also have persuaded them that I'm a crank.
5
He only hoped the article wouldn't increase the rate of crank visits.
1
Lord help us if that is the only criterion this nutcase uses.
2
But a gun could keep whoever this blackmailing nutcase is in line.
3
Jason Moncrief might be a nutcase, but he was nineteen years old.
4
You have these fringe groups living a life orchestrated by some nutcase.
5
If there is a nutcase in the area, I'll find him, believe me.
1
For instance, I'm currently working on fruitcake for a Christmas holiday column.
2
We had a rug, paper plates, a fruitcake and a small knife.
3
You do what I tell you, and you won't be a fruitcake.
4
Percy was white, his freckles popping out like currents in a fruitcake.
5
Dad brought me home and surprised me by making a fruitcake for me.
1
Bringing Up Baby is, of course, touted as the essential screwball comedy.
2
For the first 45 minutes or so, it's a screwball family comedy.
3
Here are 10 marvelously screwball panels from this six-issue Silver Age series.
4
He reminded Lee of a character out of a 1940s screwball comedy.
5
Haddish has credibility, ease, screwball physicality and sheer star wattage in spades.
1
Lauren thought she was a nut case when she met her.
2
What I'm curious about is whether you're a nut case too.
3
He believed then, and has maintained since, that he was not a nut case.
4
He's going to think I'm a total nut case.
5
You're not dealing with a neighborhood nut case.
Usage of crackpot in English
1
It's a crackpot idea, worse than any of our existing biological weapons.
2
I am sure that most of them think I am a crackpot.
3
Sanford turned out to be a crackpot with his notions of grandeur.
4
But this still leaves your other theories strictly on the crackpot level.'
5
From the cabin, Orry yelled at his brother, They're not crackpot modifications!
6
I mean, after all, he's on the records as being a crackpot.
7
We're under Holden's orders to cure a man of being a crackpot!
8
Them crackpot scientists, they don't know nothin', they kill you all off!
9
He wouldn't fall for some crackpot scheme if he didn't think it'd work.
10
An obsession with food, dieting, exercise and crackpot theories thereof; 2.
11
I told myself I was a crackpot to think this, but couldn't stop.
12
Or else, start your own doomsday story, no matter how crackpot!
13
He fits the popular picture, a crackpot toff with bizarre delusions.
14
He'd listened to her explanations and concluded that she was not a crackpot.
15
Ben Avery was no crackpot, he just worked for Michael Hillyard.
16
Even a crackpot can take a hint once in a while.
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