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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In its early days, being online often felt like stumbling onto someone’s kooky basement party.
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Zoë Bernard, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
The Egg McMuffin was originally served open-faced, which Kroc thought kooky.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
Learn More › For plenty of outdoorsmen and women, ultralight backpacking conjures up a particularly kooky image.
—Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2024
The Last Repair Shop, an L.A. Times documentary about young musicians and the kooky adults who fix their instruments for free, is the better of the pair, and has the hometown advantage.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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Zoë Bernard, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
The Egg McMuffin was originally served open-faced, which Kroc thought kooky.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
Learn More › For plenty of outdoorsmen and women, ultralight backpacking conjures up a particularly kooky image.
—Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2024
The Last Repair Shop, an L.A. Times documentary about young musicians and the kooky adults who fix their instruments for free, is the better of the pair, and has the hometown advantage.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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“Kooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kooky. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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