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wacky
[ wak-ee ]
adjective
- odd or irrational; crazy:
They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
wacky
/ ˈwækɪ /
adjective
- slang.eccentric, erratic, or unpredictable
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Derived Forms
- ˈwackily, adverb
- ˈwackiness, noun
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Other Words From
- wacki·ly adverb
- wacki·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wacky1
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Example Sentences
Washington, a truly masterful storyteller, grew up in what he calls “a wacky cult”—the Worldwide Church of God.
The actor showed tremendous range in the role, bouncing between his wacky stand-up persona and gentler dramatic work.
The onus is on one man to hold this wacky goulash of punditry together: Mike Tirico.
The man who holds ABC/ESPN's wacky goulash of World Cup punditry together strikes viewers as a paragon of congeniality.
The two wacky candidates combined for just over 5% of the vote with Brown pulling 3.3% and Bayes at 1.8%.
It took him half an hour to devise a completely wacky and unorthodox way of hitting the holes in the enemy advance.
If Jerry started for the swamp at this time of night he must be wacky!
The two biggest one give the old man two wacky, one each, an' the little one wouldn' give any.
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