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as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
around the condo complex she's known as the nutcase who consistently ignores the rules
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as in lunatic
a person who lacks good sense or judgment
only a nutcase would try to accelerate a campfire by dousing it with gasoline
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Recent Examples of nutcase
Although My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) was made in 2020, before Libs of TikTok exposed school-teacher lunacy, writer-director Caroline Vignal proves prescient about the eccentricity that goes deeper than the profession’s nutcase radicalism.
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Armond White, National Review, 27 July 2022
Ma Seok-do (Ma) is still with the Geumcheon Police Major Crimes Unit, arriving to help his fellow officers deal with a knife-wielding nutcase who’s taken hostages at a corner store.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 June 2022
None of this is to deny the Republican lurch to the extreme right and the wild popularity of conspiracy theories and nutcase politics.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 24 May 2022
That is enough to prompt scheduling a video chat with a purported demonologist (Laura Heisler) who does not seem a nutcase or charlatan.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
Video testimony provided other repudiations of Eastman’s nutcase legal theory.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 June 2022
The Trump factor alone suggests that the odds are high Republicans will nominate some nutcase candidates in winnable races who make Marjorie Taylor Greene seem like a moderate.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
That’s the date when nutcase Congressman Paul Gosar posted that hideous tweet about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
This sole non-English-language chapter is an immediately over-the-top mad scientist fantasia, with Budi Ross as a cackling nutcase in scrubs whose unfortunate subjects (there are many) get subjected to the most diabolical surgical procedures.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
Armond White, National Review, 27 July 2022
Ma Seok-do (Ma) is still with the Geumcheon Police Major Crimes Unit, arriving to help his fellow officers deal with a knife-wielding nutcase who’s taken hostages at a corner store.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 June 2022
None of this is to deny the Republican lurch to the extreme right and the wild popularity of conspiracy theories and nutcase politics.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 24 May 2022
That is enough to prompt scheduling a video chat with a purported demonologist (Laura Heisler) who does not seem a nutcase or charlatan.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
Video testimony provided other repudiations of Eastman’s nutcase legal theory.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 June 2022
The Trump factor alone suggests that the odds are high Republicans will nominate some nutcase candidates in winnable races who make Marjorie Taylor Greene seem like a moderate.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
That’s the date when nutcase Congressman Paul Gosar posted that hideous tweet about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
This sole non-English-language chapter is an immediately over-the-top mad scientist fantasia, with Budi Ross as a cackling nutcase in scrubs whose unfortunate subjects (there are many) get subjected to the most diabolical surgical procedures.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nutcase
Noun
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Ra’s decades-long adherence to this personal mythology, along with his air of serene bemusement and his extravagant robes and headdresses, led to his popular image as a colorful eccentric.—
Ekow Eshun
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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Other characters include outcasts, visionaries and eccentrics — all of whom live on the margins as unseen — a former priest, a girl trapped in working her family’s candy stand, a woman who learned preaching from her brother and is a caretaker for her dying housemate.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
18 May 2025
Noun
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Since the 1940s, professional wrestling has grown in popularity, thanks to its creative characters, stellar performances, and broad appeal to a mainstream audience.—
Mark LaSota,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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But none topped Booker Prize-winner Hollinghurst, who turned out, in the same 15 minutes as the rest of us, a richly cinematic scene placing the fictional character of Alan Hollinghurst in a tricky social encounter fraught with manners, ego, and ambition.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
Noun
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For a woman who devotes herself to God is a mystic, whereas a woman who lusts after a mortal man is a fool.—
Terry Nguyen
July 23,
Literary Hub,
23 July 2025
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In any greater fool game, the last one is the one who loses most.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
6 July 2025
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You could also get lost attempting to read the splintered English and Hebrew letters running atop a stage festooned with wacko props and occult imagery.—
Andrew Lampert,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
Noun
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Still, when those characters are a gaggle of 20-somethings being stalked by a hook-wielding and slicker-wearing homicidal maniac, there is surely cause for some cellular activity.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
17 July 2025
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At least his brand of evil maniac is kind of funny and endearing.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
Noun
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Dawn rambles on, issuing crackpot theories in the background.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 July 2025
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Arson, which blends conspiracy, conflagration, and the surrender of control, has a unique tendency to elicit crackpot theories.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
Noun
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Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old weirdo who somehow managed to crawl onto that roof and get a clean line of sight to the biggest target in the world, left virtually no trace.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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Hoult has leading-man-handsome qualities, but he’s spent most of his career playing weirdos (The Order, Mad Max: Fury Road) and losers (The Menu, Juror #2) or some combination of the two (Superman).—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
3 July 2025
Noun
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Bits of bacon, mini hot-pockets, nutter butters and doritos.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
16 Jan. 2025
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Its founder was not a member of Congress but Paul Weyrich, a hard-right nutter with theocratic leanings with a fair claim to being the Johnny Appleseed of the New Right, having also co-founded the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.—
Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
27 Mar. 2023
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“Nutcase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nutcase. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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