crackpotty
adjEtymology From crackpot + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of a crackpot.
- That is about the crack[-]pottiest scheme of all.1939 January 11, M. C. Holman, “Letters to the Forum”, in Oakland Tribune, volume CXXX, number 14, Oakland, Calif., published 14 January 1939, page 18:
- You said just what I was meaning to write to you and say, except that you say “understatement is the only emphasis,” while I was going to seek emphasis by saying that of all the crackpot notions afloat the crack[-]pottiest is the combination of the three sillinesses of imagining that we can keep the secret of the atomic bomb if we just don’t tell it, of proposing to put future scientific research under government control (which we had always despised as one of the most glaring stupidities of Nazi and Soviet methods), and of putting the whole thing under the Army, the most unprogressive branch of our government.1946 March 20, Steven T. Byington, “No Understatement”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume CXLIX, number 79, Boston, Mass., page fourteen:
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- That silly little clown, LaGuardia, repudiated by all but the crackpottiest of the crackpots, told a Senate group the other day that unless the White House changes around to his way of thinking “some of us won’t be available to stump for Harry Truman next year.”1947 May 29, George Dixon, “On the Scene in Washington: LaGuardia? What a Threat!”, in Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, volume 40, number 117, page 9:
- The precedent-shattering significance of this is not so much that Ronald Reagan is a political figure—though this in itself is an important point—as that he is the sponsor of some of the crackpottiest ideas now floating around in the political soup.1962 February 2, “Ronald Regan: A Valuable Precedent”, in Minneapolis Spokesman, twenty-eighth year, number 28, Minneapolis, Minn., page 2:
- They’re convinced the only way to stay in office is invite mail, and still more mail—then answer every letter, down to the most scurrilous and crackpottiest, with pretended gratitude, even if the voter prefaced his letter, “Dear Slob.”1963 September 16, George Dixon, “They Really Hate Mail”, in The Tampa Times, seventy-first year, number 190, Tampa, Fla., page 10-A:
- Unfortunately for her knowledge of the Atlantis problem -- but perhaps fortunately for THE SERPENT -- she seems to have stumbled first upon all the crackpottiest writers in the field, such as Bellamy, Churchward, and Wilkins.1964, L Sprague de Camp, Amra, Wildside Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page 15: