as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
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Recent Examples of kook
There’s also the pregnant, endlessly vulnerable Players 222 (Jo Yu-ri) and 044 (Chae Gook-hee), who may be a mystical shaman or just an irrational, slithering kook sowing trouble and doubt.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
The kooks followed the visionaries.
—Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
The kooks followed the visionaries.
—Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for kook
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kook
Noun
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But the settlers’ belief in the value of public goods and embrace of independent thinkers remain woven into the character of the city, which continues to attract artists, eccentrics and writers.—
Isabelle Taft,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Series regular Tony Todd, who died last fall, returns for a touching posthumous scene that references another fan favorite character.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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What was that years-long waiting period like for you while Duster was sidetracked and did your feelings about the project or character evolve at all?—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
Noun
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In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays may have been Francis Bacon.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
9 May 2025
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That’s what Elliot (Rudd) and his daughter Ridley (Ortega) confront while on a journey to a retreat hosted by Elliot’s greedy crackpot boss (Grant).—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Philly drill weirdo pushes the hushed, faded-out flows Ot7Quanny and NR Boor have tinkered with to the brink, rapping like a vengeful mummy back from the afterlife.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
9 May 2025
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To craft a weirdo strong enough to anchor the otherwise feather-light film, Hess and Heder treated the alchemy of acting like a true science, making each choice with precision.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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