: one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball
Examples of kook in a Sentence
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
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Listen to your doctor, not kooks like Bobby Kennedy and Dave Weldon.
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New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025
Listen to your doctor, not kooks like Bobby Kennedy and Dave Weldon.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook.
—Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
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New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025
Listen to your doctor, not kooks like Bobby Kennedy and Dave Weldon.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook.
—Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kook
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kook. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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