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- adjective
superlative form offringy : mostfringy .
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Examples
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Gimmick of the yearThe fringiest fringe experience of 2011 was visiting Simon Munnery's pop-up restaurant La Concepta, which appeared in a different outdoor location daily, for an exclusive guestlist of four.
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Today, the fringiest elements of the antiabortion and antigay movements have put their increasingly bizarre conditions in writing and hold the GOP candidates hostage.
Nancy L. Cohen: Why the GOP Circus Has Mattered Nancy L. Cohen 2011
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If the GOP leadership is embracing the nuttiest and fringiest wing of the party, they truly have given up entirely on this country.
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More and more evidence that DD is the fringiest of fringe positions and mainstream americans will vote against in droves with great reliability.
Friedman Interview, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As a result, Americans, even the fringiest lunatics of the right wing, seemed to be undergoing a subtle but painful realignment of self-esteem.
Insignificant Others Stephen McCauley 2010
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The resolution puts the GOP in the position of voting against a celebration of Hawaii, or in siding with the "Birther's" fringiest of fringe elements.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Immigration Wire: Post-Racial Hypocrisy 2009
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And then there has been the irresponsibility of encouraging -- and legitimating -- gun-toting, hate-filled rhetoric by the fringiest of the right wing.
Robert Creamer: Wilson Is the Poster "Child" for the New Republican Party 2009
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In that sense, the best thing that can happen to the Party from a long-term strategic perspective, is to lose just enough seats that it won't impact the Democrats 'power, but just enough seats that the Republicans will think they won big and, as a result, should continue their strategy of inciting the fringiest among them for political gain.
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All but the fringiest libertarian wants everyone's trash picked up and is willing to pay a tax for that, if for no other reason than someone else's uncollected slop can contaminate his or her preciously private property.
Bob Franken: Fighting Bureaucrats and Other Phony Battles 2009
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The Moore-ites and MoveOn types are the fringiest elements of the Left.
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