variants
or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
kookiness
noun
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Examples of kooky in a Sentence
I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.
if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends
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There was real damage in his work, which melded genre parodies (Beckett, sitcoms, Busby Berkeley) with a kooky stream-of-consciousness logic that lifted his characters aloft like helium.
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Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
But that doesn’t mean their ideas about AI necessarily are kooky.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
But no viable option has appeared: Robert Kennedy is kooky; Jill Stein is kookier; Cornel West is kookier still.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 14 Mar. 2024
Ringwald’s Carson also strikes a kooky, California contrast with the Manhattan swans — both more humble and more out-there than the East Coast grand dames like Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart) and Slim Keith (Diane Lane).
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
In fact, the pro-wrestling antics are the only really memorable thing about the film, a condemnation of its kooky, overstuffed plot.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
Every inch of the interior is covered with kooky pig decor that seems to multiply each winter hiatus.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2024
The short has a kooky premise: a masked robber tries to hold up a convenience store, only to discover that the man behind the counter is an old pal.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
Michael Cera, who played Allan – the kooky and lovable best friend of Ken – told CNN that the real win is how the film was received by audiences and brought people back into theaters.
—Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
But that doesn’t mean their ideas about AI necessarily are kooky.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
But no viable option has appeared: Robert Kennedy is kooky; Jill Stein is kookier; Cornel West is kookier still.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 14 Mar. 2024
Ringwald’s Carson also strikes a kooky, California contrast with the Manhattan swans — both more humble and more out-there than the East Coast grand dames like Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart) and Slim Keith (Diane Lane).
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
In fact, the pro-wrestling antics are the only really memorable thing about the film, a condemnation of its kooky, overstuffed plot.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
Every inch of the interior is covered with kooky pig decor that seems to multiply each winter hiatus.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2024
The short has a kooky premise: a masked robber tries to hold up a convenience store, only to discover that the man behind the counter is an old pal.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
Michael Cera, who played Allan – the kooky and lovable best friend of Ken – told CNN that the real win is how the film was received by audiences and brought people back into theaters.
—Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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