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单词 nutcase
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Definition of nutcase in English:

nutcase

noun ˈnʌtkeɪsˈnətkeɪs
informal
  • A mad or foolish person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No, I think there are a lot of nutcases out there.
    • By paying a huge ransom to the kidnappers, he merely added incentive to the nutcases to kidnap others; he raised the risks for the hundreds of British, among others, who are struggling to help rebuild the country.
    • Popular entertainment has proved a useful tool in reinforcing damaging stereotypes about single, working women as desperate nutcases who use the workplace as little more than a hunting ground for husbands.
    • In light of the zealots on the other side I decided that it was best to interpret the bill of rights as literally as possible or risk having these nutcases fool around with the fundamentals.
    • For ever and ever the trendies, the sophisticates and the beautiful people have painted us on the right side of politics as boring squares, joyless fanatics, religious nutcases, and monoethnic bigots.
    • The dismissive reaction of the Catholic Church spokesman - ‘God save us from nutcases like this’ - turned public opinion to her side.
    • I hate to be one of those whack-job state's rights nutcases, but here I go: I think my tax money should go to our local wading pools instead of subsidizing television stations in other states.
    • Far too much airtime is given to nutcases like him.
    • How dare the ITC even consider for a moment allowing the utter screaming nutcases who sell the awful lie of religious deliverance from such suffering to do so legally and publicly to people so weak they might just believe it?
    • The short version is that her parents were nutcases who treated her awfully; she ‘freaked out’ at age 11, ending up in a mental hospital.
    • Before I had the baby, I was completely oblivious to a whole new realm of nutcases in society: random strangers who want to touch other peoples' babies.
    • It's hard to keep track of all the neocon nutcases that populate this administration's foreign policy shop, but this guy ranks up there with the worst.
    • When extreme ascetism was in vogue in the patristic period you had nutcases like Phibionites outside the Church and watered down nuts for ascetism like Tertullian within (till he left).
    • Now, these guys are admittedly anti-war nutcases.
    • Neil Pickup would probably not welcome the reference: ‘People want to portray us as nutcases or beer-swilling madmen and the sport as just a pub game with no skill or no strength.
    • Or in some cases, they were just complete borderline nutcases with sociopathic tendencies.
    • The volume is a treasure-chest of nutcases, including poor Delia Bacon, who spent decades of her life, her sanity and a small fortune trying to prove that Shakespeare's works were written by her namesake Francis.
    • And that was the central argument of the first wave of books about Eichmann; that the guy's basically a weirdo, a pervert, a nutcase.
    • Alfred Nobel's discovery that nitroglycerine could be stabilised in paste was a boon to revolutionaries, assassins, dissidents and nutcases everywhere.
    • The best part is that when we do have a change of government, that government will be able to function without having to pander to the nutcases in the ‘middle parties’.
    Synonyms
    madman, madwoman, maniac, lunatic
 
 

Definition of nutcase in US English:

nutcase

(also nut case)
nounˈnətkāsˈnətkeɪs
informal
  • A crazy or foolish person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The volume is a treasure-chest of nutcases, including poor Delia Bacon, who spent decades of her life, her sanity and a small fortune trying to prove that Shakespeare's works were written by her namesake Francis.
    • No, I think there are a lot of nutcases out there.
    • Neil Pickup would probably not welcome the reference: ‘People want to portray us as nutcases or beer-swilling madmen and the sport as just a pub game with no skill or no strength.
    • Now, these guys are admittedly anti-war nutcases.
    • For ever and ever the trendies, the sophisticates and the beautiful people have painted us on the right side of politics as boring squares, joyless fanatics, religious nutcases, and monoethnic bigots.
    • When extreme ascetism was in vogue in the patristic period you had nutcases like Phibionites outside the Church and watered down nuts for ascetism like Tertullian within (till he left).
    • Far too much airtime is given to nutcases like him.
    • In light of the zealots on the other side I decided that it was best to interpret the bill of rights as literally as possible or risk having these nutcases fool around with the fundamentals.
    • I hate to be one of those whack-job state's rights nutcases, but here I go: I think my tax money should go to our local wading pools instead of subsidizing television stations in other states.
    • Before I had the baby, I was completely oblivious to a whole new realm of nutcases in society: random strangers who want to touch other peoples' babies.
    • Or in some cases, they were just complete borderline nutcases with sociopathic tendencies.
    • Popular entertainment has proved a useful tool in reinforcing damaging stereotypes about single, working women as desperate nutcases who use the workplace as little more than a hunting ground for husbands.
    • The dismissive reaction of the Catholic Church spokesman - ‘God save us from nutcases like this’ - turned public opinion to her side.
    • By paying a huge ransom to the kidnappers, he merely added incentive to the nutcases to kidnap others; he raised the risks for the hundreds of British, among others, who are struggling to help rebuild the country.
    • And that was the central argument of the first wave of books about Eichmann; that the guy's basically a weirdo, a pervert, a nutcase.
    • The best part is that when we do have a change of government, that government will be able to function without having to pander to the nutcases in the ‘middle parties’.
    • Alfred Nobel's discovery that nitroglycerine could be stabilised in paste was a boon to revolutionaries, assassins, dissidents and nutcases everywhere.
    • How dare the ITC even consider for a moment allowing the utter screaming nutcases who sell the awful lie of religious deliverance from such suffering to do so legally and publicly to people so weak they might just believe it?
    • It's hard to keep track of all the neocon nutcases that populate this administration's foreign policy shop, but this guy ranks up there with the worst.
    • The short version is that her parents were nutcases who treated her awfully; she ‘freaked out’ at age 11, ending up in a mental hospital.
    Synonyms
    madman, madwoman, maniac, lunatic
 
 
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