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Recent Examples of kookiness
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
Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kookiness
Noun
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Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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Harry and Finis refused to play Jack Donahoe’s game of commenting on every idiocy that came across their desks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The latest addition to the genre, AMC’s The Audacity, captures all the absurdities, egos, and jargon of the tech scene as deftly as its predecessors.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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In typical 30 Rock fashion, the bit reaches the height of absurdity when someone informs Arthur that some of the tennis balls are meant to be actual tennis balls in the scene.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Once upon a time, the idea of a baseball team allowing most of its games to be broadcast on television was lunacy.—
Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Bellocchio understood how to make all this lunacy compelling for an audience.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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All this inanity takes place over the course of a handful of days, during which no one ever seems to change clothes.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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The music movie tries to capture the insanity and inanity of being a modern celebrity.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There's so much that can lead a mind to insanity.—
Samantha Highfill,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Mar. 2026
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Reiner’s lawyers may plead insanity as part of his defense in connection with a long history of drug use and other mental health disorders.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The fact that that happened to us is insanity and craziness.—
Peter D'Oench,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Thank you for dealing with my craziness over the last couple months.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
17 Feb. 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
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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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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
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“Kookiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kookiness. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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