: one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball
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Examples of kook in a Sentence
a bunch of kooks dressed up in weird costumes
if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
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In the years that followed, Harris had little luck—or, to be fair, help from the White House—in wresting control of a media narrative that has portrayed her as flailing, devoid of professional purpose, a bad manager, a bit of a kook.
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
Joining her was Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar, a pair of Grade-A kooks.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
Before, a typical kook at Linda Mar would cut you off, fall, and apologize while laughing at himself.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Now Rodgers is considered by many to be a kook, someone who let himself get hoodwinked by junk science and conspiracies.
—USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
Joining her was Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar, a pair of Grade-A kooks.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
Before, a typical kook at Linda Mar would cut you off, fall, and apologize while laughing at himself.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Now Rodgers is considered by many to be a kook, someone who let himself get hoodwinked by junk science and conspiracies.
—USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
See all Example Sentences for kook
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kook. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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