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. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then came her incredible movie and authentic leading performace in The Last Showgirl, a prestige film by Gia Coppola that, like The Substance, establishes an inevitable parallel between the arc of the leading character and the actress chosen to play her.
    Blanca de Almandoz, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
  • There’s just no telling how far the Moana 2 cast will go to perfectly capture their characters.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Lucius becomes a slave and is in the charge of crafty Macrinus, and soon becomes entertainment for the masses and two dangerously crackpot twin Roman emperors — Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger).
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Won’t everyone gawk at that weirdo claiming a table for one?
    Angela Haupt, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The film is a fish-out-of-water caper, as two exotic art weirdos attempt to charm ranchers and perplexed local officials.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025

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“Kook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kook. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.

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