kooky
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Many came to Interested in Olive Oil’s defense, calling the reference refreshingly kooky; others wondered why they hadn’t included a touch more detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
And Sam's kooky persona is either going to win people's hearts or crash out spectacularly.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
At the time it was just another one of his kooky ideas that went nowhere, largely because the people around him were able to give him another shiny object to chase.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
I’m a little more grounded, a little less kooky, maybe a lot less kooky, but I’m into astrology, I’m into crystals, I’m into energy work, pretty much all the same things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
The way the Dell Duke Counseling System broke it down, the Misfits were the kooky kids who just couldn't help but dress different and act like fish out of water.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Fittingly, the majority of my favorites came from Cannes’ kookier programming sections, Directors’ Fortnight and Un Certain Regard — and I suspect many of yours did, too, oui?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Second, Ms. Behn’s affordability message seems to be trumping the effect of her kookier statements because she is filling a vacuum left by the White House, which remains quiet on an agenda to lower costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
That irks the panelists, too, evidenced in a shot of Wilson rolling his eyes at one of Coulter’s kookier mendacities.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025
Once she retired—she died in 2017—the troupe couldn’t perform pieces on that scale, but it could always come up with a few people to do the kookier early work.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
Then there were the kookier neon illustrations, like a ruffled tuxedo shirt of glowing white on a dry-cleaner window, or a girl jumping for joy at the prospect of going bowling.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2011
Greene has hit the limit of what she can do while being known as the kookiest member of Congress.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2023
Cathedral , “Quarterback dads are the kookiest, craziest type of dads in any sport. But Craig is just not that guy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
Esquivel Jingle Bells The kookiest, weirdest version I’ve ever heard, for a space-age bachelor pad, as they say in the lyrics.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2018
His character’s self-sacrificial willingness to grit his teeth through the kookiest high jinks that suburbia has to offer makes his stodgy values at least those of a consistently decent guy.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018
As with Ms. Kawakubo, Junya Watanabe’s women retain a sense of strength even in the kookiest outfits.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2012
