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Recent Examples of kookiness
Often, though, the band drops the hauteur to reveal a surprising kind of kookiness.
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Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
The friendship between these two witches is the core of this whole story, and the way that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform it is what made the first movie work, despite the all-surrounding kookiness of Wicked.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
The friendship between these two witches is the core of this whole story, and the way that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform it is what made the first movie work, despite the all-surrounding kookiness of Wicked.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kookiness
Noun
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That’s the level of idiocy in the Los Angeles city government.—
Susan Shelley,
Daily News,
13 May 2026
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The idiocy of these people knows no bounds.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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After Monday’s ruling, social media lit up with criticism for Sorsby regaining eligibility minus the first two games of the 2026 season, while others pointed out the seeming absurdity.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
9 June 2026
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There was an absurdity to it all that took the edge off the menace.—
Heidi Blake,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Noun
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Mamdani’s $22 billion housing lunacy proposal will socialize the skyline.—
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FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
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Pure lunacy — and now stressing out students with crashes of a computer system.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
Noun
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But the flight to extremism, and the metastasizing inanity, is a two-party problem, and those of us who are Democrats and who care about the importance of regrowing the dormant (if not dead) political center have an obligation to try to do something about it.—
Jeffrey Robbins,
Boston Herald,
4 May 2026
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The post-liberals stand for cruelty and inanity, but Brooks can’t admit to standing for much of anything at all.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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However, what seemed like the perfect life was really a complex house of cards built on lies and insanity.—
David Hookstead OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
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Support ballot measures or candidates (not named Steyer) focused on reforming the state’s zoning and regulatory insanity.—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
Noun
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Meanwhile, the Spurs had to rush off the court to avoid getting caught up in all the craziness.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
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This would have been ’95 and all the craziness around samples was happening.—
Lily Moayeri,
SPIN,
9 June 2026
Noun
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When Constanze reaches her breaking point, Mozart’s imbecility is exposed as fragility.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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At Pasadena Playhouse, where a revival of the 1947 musical is occurring, some of the audience may already have a different miracle in mind, unrelated to any mystical Scottish hokum coming up in the plot.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
27 May 2026
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Otherwise, a spectacle that’s supposed to be an ode to the power of Hollywood hokum simply becomes the minor-key embodiment of it.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Kookiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kookiness. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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