wacko

Example Sentences

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Do you look back at the risks you took, with unusual buildings designed by foreign architects with no experience in China, as wacko now?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

In April, he was expelled from the House of Commons for calling the prime minister a "wacko".

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

He also tried to warn other law enforcement agencies, he testified, writing to the Capitol Police that Mr. Rhodes was “a friggin’ wacko that the Oath Keepers would be better without.”

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

OK, but merely being a nice guy rather than a rude wacko is a pretty low bar.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022

He thought maybe he should act a little wacko, so everyone would believe that he’d been freaked out by the notion of being closed in, cut off from the outside world.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix