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Example sentences for: crank

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It is Sir John Marks Templeton, religious philanthropist, investment wizard, amateur philosopher, and full-bore crank.
What do we learn from the willingness of extreme free-market conservatives to associate themselves with crank doctrines like bionomics?
Christopher isn't just a good explanation for why the mob's tanking, though with his crank and inability even to get his Godfather references straight, for chrissake, he's that too.
-- Call Me a Crank
My irritation with the adulation of Big Names does not arise from my lack of fame, or from my working at a small university (which gives me freedom from "publish or perish": I can write what and when I like, rather than having to "crank it out").