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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characteristic of a kook; strange or crazy.
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- adjective irreverent; idiosyncratic or unexpected; not normal
- adjective describing a person crazy or insane
- adjective surfing Resembling a
kook in behavior
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- adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
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Examples
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I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to.
Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010
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I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to.
Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010
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I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to.
Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010
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I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to.
Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010
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I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to.
Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010
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This obsessive fan Mel - played to breathtaking perfection by Kristen Schaal, a US comic it is currently illegal to describe without using the word "kooky" - is based on a variety of real-life groupies.
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This obsessive fan Mel - played to breathtaking perfection by Kristen Schaal, a US comic it is currently illegal to describe without using the word "kooky" - is based on a variety of real-life groupies.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Stephen Armstrong 2009
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Look, I draw a very bright line between eccentric and kooky, which is completely fine, and child safety.
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GOFF: The official terminology, I believe, for a political move like that is called a kooky (ph) one, a wacky one, a loopy one.
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I was displeased that the Iran correspondent of Al-Akhbar newspaper--of all places--called the kooky Iran holocaust "conference" "courageous."
Sunday, December 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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- abnormal
- absurd
- anomalous
- apish
- asinine
- balmy
- bananas
- barmy
- bats
- batty
- beany
- befooled
- beguiled
- besotted
- bonkers
- brainless
- buffoonish
- buggy
- bughouse
- bugs
- cockeyed
- crackers
- crank
- crankish
- cranky
- crazy
- credulous
- crotchety
- cuckoo
- curious
- daffy
- daft
- dazed
- deviant
- deviative
- different
- dippy
- divergent
- dizzy
- doting
- dotty
- dumb
- eccentric
- erratic
- exceptional
- fatuitous
- fatuous
- fey
- flaky
- flipped
- fond
- fool
- foolheaded
- foolish
- freaked out
- freaked-out
- freakish
- freaky
- fruitcakey
- fruity
- fuddled
- funny
- futile
- gaga
- goofy
- gulled
- haywire
- idiocratic
- idiosyncratic
- idiotic
- imbecile
- inane
- inept
- infatuated
- insane
- irregular
- just plain nuts
- kinky
- loony
- loopy
- mad
- maggoty
- maudlin
- moronic
- nuts
- nutty
- odd
- oddball
- off
- off the hinges
- off the track
- off the wall
- out
- outlandish
- passing strange
- peculiar
- potty
- quaint
- queer
- quirky
- round the bend
- sappy
- screwball
- screwballs
- screwy
- senseless
- sentimental
- silly
- singular
- slaphappy
- strange
- stupid
- thoughtless
- twisted
- unconventional
- unearthly
- unnatural
- wacky
- weird
- wet
- whimsical
- witless
- wondrous strange
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