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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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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The father and the mother are played by two of modern cinema’s most supremely talented eccentrics, Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
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Designers traditionally present themselves in public as preening demigods or fussy, difficult eccentrics, but neither is the vibe that Porte Jacquemus gives off.Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
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Some of these data collections, such as character sheets, are for your reference only.PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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His character, Callum Drift, is definitely the head of an organization called ELF, which stands for Enforcement, Logistics, and Fortification (there are multiple cute little acronyms like that in this movie), and which is basically the North Pole’s answer to the Secret Service.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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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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Germ theory, plate tectonics, the Big Bang and countless other fringe theories lay buried in the crackpot pile for decades before surfacing as scientific consensus.Andréa Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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She was set to unveil her new remix album for BRAT, which is loaded with friends and fellow weirdos, from Ariana Grande to Bon Iver to Bb trickz to Bladee.Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
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There's the Salem tourists flood in October and the Salem that pagans, heathers and weirdos like me enjoy the rest of the year.Steph Solis, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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