whacky

adjective

less common spelling of wacky

: absurdly or amusingly eccentric or irrational

wacky ideas

a wacky comedian

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Their flagship show, Good Mythical Morning, streams to 19 million subscribers, while their Mythical Kitchen channel serves up whacky food content to another 3.9 million fans. —

Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 For a delightfully whacky and wild pick, try Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, a loose remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian horror film of the same name. —

Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 22 June 2024 With her elimination, Clock completes a podium finish for this 11th season of Fox’s whacky singing contest, ending up in third place behind Gumball and Goldfish in this semi-final. —

Lars Brandle, Billboard, 16 May 2024 And when a 33-minute actual rain delay in the ninth inning puts a bow of bedlam on everything, this whacky, inexplicable, mesmerizing, wonderful sport somehow suddenly starts to make sense. —

Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2023 Threaded on a jig head or whacky rigged, the Fire Worm gives you lots of options for fishing small streams, larger rivers, ponds, and reservoirs. —

Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023 Things do not go as planned in the Coen brothers’ whackiest film (and one of their best). —

Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023 Older women do whacky things. —

Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023 My colleague Lance Lambert rolls out seven graphs that reveal just how whacky the U.S. housing market has become. —

Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021