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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Ben seeks to accomplish this goal — to the dismay of many around him — by adhering to the principles set forth in a questionable manual cooked up by a kooky guru named Mealworm (Oscar nominee Paul Raci).
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
All of this pulled attention from and clouded the kooky experimentation Cabello embraced on the album.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2024
Both actresses originally auditioned for the role of Amy Santiago, the only character written as Latina and the eventual love interest to Andy Samberg’s kooky, laissez-faire Jake Peralta.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
But this common framing reduces their cultural importance to sensationalism: Look at how kooky our ancestors were!
—Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
All of this pulled attention from and clouded the kooky experimentation Cabello embraced on the album.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2024
Both actresses originally auditioned for the role of Amy Santiago, the only character written as Latina and the eventual love interest to Andy Samberg’s kooky, laissez-faire Jake Peralta.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
But this common framing reduces their cultural importance to sensationalism: Look at how kooky our ancestors were!
—Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for kooky
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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