whacky

adjective

less common spelling of wacky

: absurdly or amusingly eccentric or irrational

wacky ideas

a wacky comedian

Examples of whacky in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With her elimination, Clock completes a podium finish for this 11th season of Fox’s whacky singing contest, ending up in third place behind Gumball and Goldfish in this semi-final. —Lars Brandle, Billboard, 16 May 2024

And when a 33-minute actual rain delay in the ninth inning puts a bow of bedlam on everything, this whacky, inexplicable, mesmerizing, wonderful sport somehow suddenly starts to make sense. —Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2023

Threaded on a jig head or whacky rigged, the Fire Worm gives you lots of options for fishing small streams, larger rivers, ponds, and reservoirs. —Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023

Things do not go as planned in the Coen brothers’ whackiest film (and one of their best). —Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023

Older women do whacky things. —Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023

My colleague Lance Lambert rolls out seven graphs that reveal just how whacky the U.S. housing market has become. —Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021

The world is full of people who hold whacky views. —Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013

The team behind this paper has been deflating carcass explosion theories about other whacky ichthyosaur fossils too (pdf). —Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2012