kook

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\ ˈkük

Definition of kook

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

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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 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 Besides partisans and kooks, who could side with an organization that is successful beyond belief, skirts the rules and is led by an all-powerful boss facing serious legal questions? — Washington Post, 10 May 2019 The most tense sequence in El Camino depends on the gabby old kook from down the hall ever-so-slowly watering plants with a plastic spray bottle. — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019

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