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

"We obviously can't be surprised if we lose. We're not that wacko," he told the outlet.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 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