kook

noun

ˈkük

Synonyms of kook next

: one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball

Example Sentences

a bunch of kooks dressed up in weird costumes if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook

Recent Examples on the Web Harold Camping, the guy making these claims is, to be charitable, a kook. —

Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2011 Almedilla’s accident-prone Sarah Jane Moore, who shoots her pooch on her way to infamy, is a standout kook. —

Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022 But being a professional kook was a lonely crusade. —

Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic, 17 June 2021 Again and again, Pelosi is dismissed, first as a dilettante housewife, then as a far-left San Francisco kook, finally as an establishment dinosaur — and throughout, as a woman. —

Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, 5 May 2020 The line of attack is the familiar one of using a few isolated idiots or kooks to tar the entire enterprise. —

Rich Lowry, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020 This shortcoming might explain why the show takes such pains to portray her as a kook, and possibly even a murderer. —

Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2020 The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent. —

Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020 Social media is flooding with kooks claiming the media and the Democrats are responsible for new coronavirus. —

Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2020 See More

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