lunatic fringe



Bolshevik, Jacobin, aficionado, anarchist, buff, bug, crank, devotee, enthusiast, extreme left-winger, extremist, fan, fanatic, freak, infatuate,

   cunning - Byzantine, Machiavellian, Mignon, ability, acute, address, adept, adeptness, adroit, adroitness, agility, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, animal cunning, apt,

   disjunct - aimless, alien, alienated, amorphous, apart, capricious, casual, desultory, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoint,

   loose purse strings - conspicuous consumption, dissipation, extravagance, incontinence, intemperance, lavishness, profusion, waste ,

   nasal tone - croak, crow, falsetto, harshness, hiss, lisp, nasalization, quaver, shake, tremor, twang ,

   guiltless - angelic, blameless, chaste, childlike, clean, clear, dovelike, exemplary, faultless, immaculate, in the clear, innocent, irreproachable, not guilty, pristine,

   judgement - acquittal, acumen, adjudication, anathematizing, appraisal, assessment, assumption, astuteness, attitude, belief, castigation, censure, chastening, chastisement, circumspection,

   legislature - act, advisory body, assembly, association, bench, board, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, cabinet, chamber, city council, common council, concurrent resolution, conference,

   lender - banker, factor, loan shark, moneylender, mortgagee, pawnbroker ,

   brood - agonize, animal kingdom, be abstracted, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child, blood, breed, carry, carry young, chew the cud, children, clan, class,

   greyed - ashen, dapple, dappled, dingy, dismal, dreary, dull, dusty, glaucous, grey, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, leaden, livid,