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Перевод: crackpot

[прилагательное]
сумасшедший; помешанный;
[существительное]
сумасшедший ; помешанный ; ненормальный ; чокнутый

Тезаурус:

1. Original vocalist Caron Wheeler makes a welcome return on Take Me Higher, but my favourite moments are provided by Jazzie B himself, whose pseudo-scientific raps are delivered with a London accent and all the assurance of a crackpot dictator.
2. The four British associations each has a vote on the board, with Fifa having four of its own, which gives it the power of veto but guards against the laws being riddled with crackpot theories - such as making the goals bigger.
3. But we pointed out, first, that the hypothesis of formative causation, if true, would be extremely important; and secondly that it was, in contrast to the crackpot ideas with which Nature (vol 90, p 749) confused it, open to experiment.
4. The ruins of Crackpot Hall
5. Because Lysenko, a crackpot geneticist, was the modern pioneer of bending scientific data and bashing professional opponents to suit the reigning political preference - not unlike the EPA administrators who dealt with dioxin contamination by re-writing the reports and intimidating their various authors, Lysenko was so preeminent in this process that common English usage has accorded him an eponymous distinction: "Lysenkoism" is now the accepted term for politically enforced manipulation of scientific truth.
6. On the far bank, where a tributary of the Swale forms the waterfall of East Gill Force, a short climb arrives at a lane and here the two routes part company, never again to meet: Pennine Wayfarers turn left for Tan Hill, and Coast to Coasters turn right across a bridge to follow the lane eastwards high above the gorge of the Swale to reach Crackpot Hall.
7. Nor is there any need to risk being challenged by alternative social visions, to attend to the views of "every crackpot messiah round the world", since "it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso, for we are interested in what one could in some sense call the common ideological heritage of mankind".
8. Just so might the exhausted arrogance of a dying empire have expressed itself on the lips of a Roman senator waving away the news of a "crackpot messiah" among the Jews, and the strange thoughts that occur to people in Jerusalem or Galilee.
9. Crackpot Hall is a sad ruin in a beautiful location.
10. Tigrett, who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation, falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould: he is even married to Maureen, former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison's Natural Law Party.
11. "It's that crackpot Mark Lemon with his idea for a comic magazine.
12. But there is no need to look to "crackpot messiahs" or fundamentalist theocracies to find a decisive religious rejection of Fukuyama's reading of human history.