variants
or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
kookiness
noun
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Examples of kooky in a Sentence
I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.
if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends
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From the kooky episode that started it all to a recent front-runner, here is every Bob’s Burgers Christmas episode, ranked.
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Lillian Brown, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
Together, its ensemble of top-flight actors, including Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Mare Winningham, David Rasche, and Barbie Ferreira, forms a kooky family barreling toward a festive, collective meltdown.
—Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
The worst that some Americans have done was to lie about the Haitian refugees and make up kooky stories about them eating people’s pets.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
In the series, the mischievous Cat and his sidekick, the ever-cautious Fish, strike out on kooky adventures that feature alphabet song sing-a-longs, tremendous tongue-twisters, and wondrous wordplay.
—Spenser Mestel, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
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Lillian Brown, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
Together, its ensemble of top-flight actors, including Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Mare Winningham, David Rasche, and Barbie Ferreira, forms a kooky family barreling toward a festive, collective meltdown.
—Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
The worst that some Americans have done was to lie about the Haitian refugees and make up kooky stories about them eating people’s pets.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
In the series, the mischievous Cat and his sidekick, the ever-cautious Fish, strike out on kooky adventures that feature alphabet song sing-a-longs, tremendous tongue-twisters, and wondrous wordplay.
—Spenser Mestel, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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