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Recent Examples of kookiness
The beloved British artist David Hockney, who died last week at the age of 88, is celebrated for his vibrant paintings, his innovative techniques, and his joyful kookiness.
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Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
15 June 2026
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.
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Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2025
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
15 June 2026
Often, though, the band drops the hauteur to reveal a surprising kind of kookiness.
—
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
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That’s the level of idiocy in the Los Angeles city government.
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The idiocy of these people knows no bounds.
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Brooks also taught Wilder how to take something funny, push it all the way to the point of absurdity, then keep going.
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The second lady is perhaps the most interesting figure in Trumpworld right now, and certainly the only one who understands the absurdity of it all.
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The Emmys’ producers passing up on even the slightest possibility of a Werner Herzog acceptance speech is sheer lunacy.
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Mamdani’s $22 billion housing lunacy proposal will socialize the skyline.
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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.
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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.
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Piggott was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a trial held a year later.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for the impeachment of the Miami-Dade judge who acquitted a woman by reason of insanity in the 2021 death of her 15-month-old daughter, arguing the ruling threatens public safety.
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The forecast for Thursday calls for craziness.
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Meanwhile, the Spurs had to rush off the court to avoid getting caught up in all the craziness.
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When Constanze reaches her breaking point, Mozart’s imbecility is exposed as fragility.
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There are definitely laughs in Maddie’s Secret, but the point of the movie is almost to get beyond them, to the place where naive hokum could yield moments of inexplicable resonance.
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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.
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“Kookiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kookiness. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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