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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kook
Noun
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Rachel does a great job conveying such collective endeavors and group dreaming, the whole circumference of people who support bands: friends of friends, drop-of-a-hat designers, stopgap agents, stall owners, dealers, grandparents with record collections, eccentrics without portfolios.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Would love to know what these career eccentrics make of the pomp and pageantry of the Grammys.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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That’s not to mention the sheer psychological toll that slipping through the timestream or reliving events can have on a character’s psyche.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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Tartaglia voices multiple characters in the series.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
16 Mar. 2025
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With Mickey 17, Pattinson doubles down (literally) on the crackpot touches and gives Bong’s follow-up to Parasite a true sense of unpredictable, undeniable lunacy.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2025
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Of course, centuries of bizarre medical solutions have proven that a small volume of patients can seemingly recover from almost any condition regardless of whatever crackpot solution is administered.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Feb. 2025
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The Jones was for the artists, the punks, the weirdos.—
Zach Helfand,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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The sitcom was already packed with weirdos — Toby Huss' Artie, the Strongest Man in the World, for one — and as Little Pete's bestie Nona, she was slated to play yet another.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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