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Recent Examples of kooky People who exercised for fun were often seen as kooky. Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025 Aduba shines as Cordelia, carefully finding the balance between kooky humor and an air of gravitas. Photo: Courtesy Of Warner Bros. Pictures., refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2025 Though the mysteries, shenanigans, and kooky characters of Mike White’s brainchild bring us back every season, the infamous fashion is not to be overlooked. Madison Yauger, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025 But there has to be a better way to do this and part of that is reforming New York City’s very kooky property tax structure, where Con Ed pays more to City Hall than anyone else and then has to charge higher fees to customers. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kooky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kooky
Adjective
  • The movie, based on the video game of the same name, centers around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
  • But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.
    Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.
    Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Moments that may seem silly or insignificant to others — like sharing a particular greeting, teasing each other in a familiar way or even speaking to each other in silly, baby-ish voices — can be great sources of comfort and familiarity for partners.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The industry has seen its fair share of terrible ideas, from the downright bizarre to the silly.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Gargantuan, weird outcomes can start small in the tech world, and often innocently.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Some of those weird dissonant chords, there’s some of that in there for sure.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His is a sort of erudite buffoonery that consistently tap-dances between clever, self-aware, and patently stupid.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Each of them loses track of a CD filled with secrets, and some end up dying in the stupidest possible ways because of their incompetence.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • What happened was that all of this comedy spoken in Kansai-ben was understood nationwide as being funny.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Everyone thought this was very funny, including, to her credit, Kate.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Williamson said earlier this week that his hamstring is completely healed, but his mental state remains a work in progress.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Sign up That Torrance pushed Vial and Eduardo to such mental anguish does not surprise immigrant-justice advocates.
    María Inés Taracena, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • With his shock of spiky hair and adrenaline rushes, Smith turns a corporate villain into a lunatic new-wave frontman.
    Charles McNultyTheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The first personality is the lunatic, chaotic artist, with no limits.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022

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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kooky. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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