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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But, at least the comedy in this spinoff, which has the black-and-white foursome on a mission to stop an evil octopus supervillain in a kooky James Bond pastiche, works.
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James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
The company is betting that chocolate, peanut butter and a group of kooky characters will be enough to carry the day.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
The layout of this slice of Italianate mansion is kooky, but the primary featured in this listing photo comes with an original fireplace and is big enough to fit a king bed.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2025
Hardly undone by all that, the plucky Texas teen enlists the otherworldly assist of her mystical, kooky and somewhat sage aunt Gugu (Lori Tan Chinn) and a sidekick, the vampire spirit Ed (Bowen Yang), who warned her about the demon Kit (Woosung Kim).
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
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James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
The company is betting that chocolate, peanut butter and a group of kooky characters will be enough to carry the day.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
The layout of this slice of Italianate mansion is kooky, but the primary featured in this listing photo comes with an original fireplace and is big enough to fit a king bed.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2025
Hardly undone by all that, the plucky Texas teen enlists the otherworldly assist of her mystical, kooky and somewhat sage aunt Gugu (Lori Tan Chinn) and a sidekick, the vampire spirit Ed (Bowen Yang), who warned her about the demon Kit (Woosung Kim).
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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