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1
as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers
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2
as in silly
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
a kooky bicyclist who stubbornly refuses to wear a helmet that was a kooky thing to do
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Recent Examples of kooky
Who are Josh and Melissa, other than our vehicles into this kooky town?
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
Anyone surprised by how kooky this song is has not been paying enough attention to Robyn’s whole deal.
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Molly Mary O’Brien,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Clausen’s Donna comes across at first a bit scattered and kooky, but eventually her despair can no longer be hidden.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Jan. 2026
Costume designer Lissy Turner drapes Parsons in flowy layers and embroidered velvet, conveying everything the audience needs to know about this woman and her kooky, open-minded beliefs.
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Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
Anyone surprised by how kooky this song is has not been paying enough attention to Robyn’s whole deal.
—
Molly Mary O’Brien,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Clausen’s Donna comes across at first a bit scattered and kooky, but eventually her despair can no longer be hidden.
—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Jan. 2026
Costume designer Lissy Turner drapes Parsons in flowy layers and embroidered velvet, conveying everything the audience needs to know about this woman and her kooky, open-minded beliefs.
—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kooky
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When Aaron Paul’s Jeff attempts to make a suspicious deposit, the bank teller (a game Nina Dobrev) demands to be in on the deal, in the sort of neo-noir twist that could suggest a rich film world populated with bizarre freaks of all stripes.
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In the canon of DC Comics, Comet is truly a bizarre character.
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Every player with a pulse had six suitors throwing silly money around.
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Some scenes in the movie are light and silly, including those pairing Maddie with a lesbian friend, played by Kate Berlant, who clearly loves her.
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Watching improv is reliably funny because performers work without a script.
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But figuring out how to do all that while being funny at the same time?
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But even the most perfect Constitution can be undone by the wicked with the help of the bought, the stupid, and the cowardly.
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White can believe Hokit said something stupid and still believe fighters should be allowed to speak for themselves.
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Informal Beyblade battles are popping up in strangest of places, with players huddling in parks, gyms and shopping malls.
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The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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The 41-year-old is still an elite NBA player, which is still an absurd reality to consider.
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The thesis rests on a claim that would have sounded absurd a year ago.
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So, that was kind of quite weird.
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But storefronts across the city have long been weird hodgepodges, rife with misspellings and aesthetic incoherence.
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For example, Fred Again is absolutely doing insane things with the MPC Lives.
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That dwarfs anything the powerhouse Spain teams did in the early 2010s, when the team was known for stringing together an insane number of passes that led to a goal.
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kooky. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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