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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
This kooky courtroom drama finds Andy Sachs—at start a perfectly happy publisher at a small university press—being sued by her former employer for apparent NDA violations.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
Megan Stalter, who brilliantly plays the kooky but complicated Kayla Schaeffer from the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy category.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Jenna Ortega is all set to return as Wednesday Addams for another year of kooky, macabre hijinks.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 July 2025
In Too Much, Megan Stalter’s Jessica Salmon describes her fantasies of life across the pond within other artists’ quotation marks: A little like a period drama, a little like a kooky BBC Three sitcom, a lot like Bridget Jones’s Diary.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
Megan Stalter, who brilliantly plays the kooky but complicated Kayla Schaeffer from the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy category.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Jenna Ortega is all set to return as Wednesday Addams for another year of kooky, macabre hijinks.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 July 2025
In Too Much, Megan Stalter’s Jessica Salmon describes her fantasies of life across the pond within other artists’ quotation marks: A little like a period drama, a little like a kooky BBC Three sitcom, a lot like Bridget Jones’s Diary.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kooky
Adjective
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After a couple of insulting caricatures, increasingly bizarre depictions of the Vice President started to spread through the internet, the trend becoming a competition to see who could create the most hideous, weird or original Vance.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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These clever yet bizarre gadgets are both fun and oddly useful.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Similar to the first film, families will enjoy silly slapstick mixed with great chemistry between Lohan and Curtis, who are just as good together.—
Katie Grant,
Parents,
7 Aug. 2025
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In one silly snap, Cannon could be seen wearing a red sweatsuit and posing with four of his kids.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Two-tone paint job and that weird hump of a trunk, remember?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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Like everybody else in the show, he’s squeezed by the various, weird incentives of a capitalist medical system.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
14 Aug. 2025
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No Broward program can possibly be as wasteful and downright stupid as the Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS).—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Aug. 2025
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On the other side of the ledger, Jaguar did a stupid, and seriously WOKE advertisement, THAT IS A TOTAL DISASTER!—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Charlie Brown has evolved into something nicer In those days, Charles M. Schulz’s comic and its characters were meaner, the humor darker (and, frankly, funnier).—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son Set in contemporary North Korea, this epic, harrowing, and darkly funny novel follows a man caught in a totalitarian machine.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Tauruses will go crazy for something chic, functional, and soft to the touch.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
9 Feb. 2023
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Before getting into the chaos of episode 5, that episode 4 cliff hanger was crazy.—
Calie Schepp,
EW.com,
6 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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The craft beer industry is in a strange place right now.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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At the campaign’s first big canvassing event in mid-December, primary field director Tascha Van Auken noticed something strange happening.—
Mark Chiusano,
Time,
14 Aug. 2025
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Though it's deemed an accident in the play by Queen Gertrude, Ophelia was considered mad and the possibility of suicide was not ruled out.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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When Fishbein visited the property on a recent afternoon, a mad nest of rebar and brick rose over the horizon of a chain-link fence on 23rd Street.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kooky. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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