as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook
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Recent Examples of kook
Before, a typical kook at Linda Mar would cut you off, fall, and apologize while laughing at himself.
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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
Emma Stone’s monster turn Poor Things Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are back with another archly funny period piece about a bunch of kooks.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023
Others were kooks, and some were dangerous scoundrels—or some combination thereof.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
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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
Emma Stone’s monster turn Poor Things Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are back with another archly funny period piece about a bunch of kooks.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2023
Others were kooks, and some were dangerous scoundrels—or some combination thereof.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
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That someone was Gary Paxton, one of the true eccentrics in the early fly-by-night Hollywood rock ‘n’ roll industry.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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Leslie Cochran and 'Crazy Carl' have not been forgotten Two of Austin's most beloved eccentrics from the recent past received votes.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Aug. 2024
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Even as his acting career now spans three decades, Jude Law continues to be a Hollywood leading man, with his impressive versatility to play characters from many walks of life, in a wide range of film & television projects.Jeff Conway, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Certain characters and performances stand out amid a collection of distinctive personalities.Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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Those may sound like the Luddite ravings of a crackpot who breached security at an IEEE conference.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2014
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Three directors seem like a lot for one film that isn’t an omnibus, especially with an ensemble that includes, as the crackpot world leaders, Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance, Roy Dupuis, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, and Takehiro Hira.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024
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Many of the ensemble characters are outlandish weirdos with several minutes of spotlight spent imparting a strange lesson upon Alice.Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 16 Nov. 2024
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For any other weirdos like me, Netflix has served as a great resource for this compulsion over the years, and the streamer’s current horror line up is no exception.Travis Bean, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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