How to Use wacko in a Sentence

wacko

adjective
Definition of wackonext
Synonyms for wackonext
  • Even without that trend, isn’t this line a little wacko?
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • But the downside of the mockery is glibness; if only the racists and terrorists of the world came as clearly labeled as this flagrantly wacko crew.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • The ingredient labels are wacko, some of the prices are ridiculous and the advertising claims are laughable.
    — Lori Nickel, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • There is none of, say, Stone’s wacko conspiracy theorizing from JFK.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Perhaps a misguided missile launched by the wacko dictator in North Korea that winds up thousands of miles off course and explodes above a suburb of Pyongyang, instead.
    — vanityfair.com, 6 June 2017
  • Ashley also seems to think that whoever killed the girls did it for popularity, a wacko theory that gets put to the test when she and John are collectively shunned at the house party.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2018
  • So after every shooting massacre, when more innocent people are murdered by some wacko with a firearm designed for mass killing, there’s tough talk, screaming and flailing for a few days.
    — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Bolton is a more serious and well-disciplined version of the chaotic Steve Bannon, or the president’s first national security advisor, the wacko Mike Flynn.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • This was at a time when conservatives were almost ridiculed on law school campuses, where the notion of using the original intentions of the framers to make decisions was seen as laughable, almost wacko, method of constitutional interpretation.
    — Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The satirical film’s superficially wacko plot involving an assassination attempt on the progressive prime minister of Malaysia to allow the fashion industry to retain cheap child labor in that country now seems kind of prophetic.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2016
  • Even without that trend, isn’t this line a little wacko?
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • But the downside of the mockery is glibness; if only the racists and terrorists of the world came as clearly labeled as this flagrantly wacko crew.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • The ingredient labels are wacko, some of the prices are ridiculous and the advertising claims are laughable.
    — Lori Nickel, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • There is none of, say, Stone’s wacko conspiracy theorizing from JFK.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Perhaps a misguided missile launched by the wacko dictator in North Korea that winds up thousands of miles off course and explodes above a suburb of Pyongyang, instead.
    — vanityfair.com, 6 June 2017
  • Ashley also seems to think that whoever killed the girls did it for popularity, a wacko theory that gets put to the test when she and John are collectively shunned at the house party.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2018
  • So after every shooting massacre, when more innocent people are murdered by some wacko with a firearm designed for mass killing, there’s tough talk, screaming and flailing for a few days.
    — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Bolton is a more serious and well-disciplined version of the chaotic Steve Bannon, or the president’s first national security advisor, the wacko Mike Flynn.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • This was at a time when conservatives were almost ridiculed on law school campuses, where the notion of using the original intentions of the framers to make decisions was seen as laughable, almost wacko, method of constitutional interpretation.
    — Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The satirical film’s superficially wacko plot involving an assassination attempt on the progressive prime minister of Malaysia to allow the fashion industry to retain cheap child labor in that country now seems kind of prophetic.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2016

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