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
See all Example Sentences for kook
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kook
Noun
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My dedication, to help the waifs and strays and eccentrics of the music world together, continues to this day.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2024
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Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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McConnell impressed first-team staff during Liverpool’s 2023 pre-season tour of Singapore with his character, attitude in training and ability to listen and absorb information.—
Andy Jones,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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The film sees smart characters scheme and connive among one another to find a way to win.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Bobby Kennedy and his crackpot ideas will do great harm to Americans.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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The outfit has been populated with some of the worst crackpots and conspiracy theorists, and its anti-Western orientation is matched only by its reliable antisemitism.—
The Editors,
National Review,
9 Jan. 2025
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But instead of laughing in Gladden’s face, Barinholtz praised him for earnestly committing to the responsibility of leading deliberations and being kind to the weirdos with whom he was sequestered.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
22 Jan. 2025
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The funky weirdos in Venice or the edgy streetwear of Melrose.—
Allure Editors,
Allure,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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