variants
or less commonly kookie
kookier; kookiest
kookiness
noun
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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Megan Stalter, who brilliantly plays the kooky but complicated Kayla Schaeffer from the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy category.
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Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Jenna Ortega is all set to return as Wednesday Addams for another year of kooky, macabre hijinks.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 July 2025
In Too Much, Megan Stalter’s Jessica Salmon describes her fantasies of life across the pond within other artists’ quotation marks: A little like a period drama, a little like a kooky BBC Three sitcom, a lot like Bridget Jones’s Diary.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
This season, Wednesday must navigate family, friends and old adversaries, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
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Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Jenna Ortega is all set to return as Wednesday Addams for another year of kooky, macabre hijinks.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 July 2025
In Too Much, Megan Stalter’s Jessica Salmon describes her fantasies of life across the pond within other artists’ quotation marks: A little like a period drama, a little like a kooky BBC Three sitcom, a lot like Bridget Jones’s Diary.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 July 2025
This season, Wednesday must navigate family, friends and old adversaries, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem.
—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
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 21 Jul. 2025.
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