kookiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kookiness
Noun
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ohio is another absurdity, used to describe something strange, weird, or cringey.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The absurdity of the situation began to dawn on me, and a round of giggles began building inside.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There was the escalating lunacy of Sal and Quinn’s backlot power struggle, up to and including a hurled burrito.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Yang is genius not just for playing the easy pickins of George Santos but high-concept lunacy like a gay oompaloompa and the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.
    Steven Zeitch, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For the past four years, Honan has been a worm in Adams’s apple, scoring scoop after scoop about the dramas, inanities, and intrigues of his administration.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The previous sentence illustrates the inanity of my desire.
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Following his arrest, Gein was charged with first-degree murder, but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But beneath the insanity, there's real heart, pathos, and vulnerability.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If anyone remembers the craziness of the MarketWatch IPO, that’s what really got the dot-com movement going and turned a lot of bankers’ heads.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Occupying a two-mile run from Beach Boulevard south to the Newport Beach line, State Beach is family friendly and features many of the amenities of its northern neighbor without the volume of crowds, hassles or craziness.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Let’s dive in and see what the hype, and the hokum (because there is some), is all about.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Even so, as Jerry delivers his hokum, Offerman invests it with a hypnotic clarity, a sense that Jerry is trying to create a rational and just world — to create salvation — out of the irrational.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • Third, despite Trump’s claptrap, plenty of fresh delta water is being pumped south to fill fire hydrants and the tanks of firefighting aircraft.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Kookiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kookiness. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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