flat-earther

I am not some flat-earther who thinks polar bears should be shot.

Mr Davis says that being a flat-earther doesn't have an impact on how one lives every day.

You have to be a real flat-earther - or the American president - to deny global warming is happening.

Did the round-earther envy the flat-earther the number of his adherents?

Mr. Friedman had long since ceased to be called a flat-earther by anyone.

Welcome to the world of the flat-earther.

Even on the subject of the shape of the earth, a layman may find himself powerless in a debate with a flat-earther.

But it is hard to respect the thinking of a Flat-Earther or a man who accepts his hopes and beliefs as immutable facts.

In David Jones' case, it was a flat-earther when it came to recognising and responding to online retailing.

Later, "Flat-earther" became a common epithet for someone who stubbornly adheres to discredited or outmoded ideas.

In the 21st Century, the term "flat-earther" is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant.

"Many use the term 'flat-earther' as a term of abuse, and with connotations that imply blind faith, ignorance or even anti-intellectualism."

Ms. Giuliano is no flat-earther.

Wow, only one flat-earther.

To say that it is all the fault of the private sector, as a certain kind of left-liberal flat-earther continues obstinately to insist, is irrelevant.

Autodidact, charmer, more romantic than any flat-earther, Patrick Leigh Fermor had something about him that was a little too good to be true.

But Zahra, impeccably yet conservatively dressed in a dark suit complete with a houndstooth handkerchief tucked in his jacket pocket, is not a flat-earther.

A flat-earther may propose a "theory neutral" route to Cathay: "always sail east after rounding the Cape of Good Hope".

As long as he continues to deny that the last government spent Britain into a deficit crisis, as he did again this week, he will be widely recognised as a flat-earther.

He had always been interested in astronomy (his Uncle Robin was a flat-earther), and Fred Hoyle's theory of an endlessly self-renewing universe, which dispensed with a creator, was attractive.

The first use of the term flat-earther recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1934 in Punch: "Without being a bigoted flat-earther, he [sc."

Gregg McClymont MP, Labour's Shadow Pensions Minister, said yesterday: "In his wilful refusal to face reality on the pensions issue John Swinney increasingly resembles a flat-earther.

Being a lefty on economic issues - since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the breakup of the Soviet Union and now with Europe's prolonged economic malaise - is like being a flat-earther after Columbus.

Apostle Anton Darms, assistant to the Reverend Wilbur Glenn Voliva, America's best known flat-earther, compiled 50 questions about the creation and the shape of the earth, bolstering his answers with up to 20 scriptures each.