What's the difference between kooky and outlandish?

Kooky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If your little daughter does a kooky dance to a Prince song don’t bother putting it on YouTube for her grandparents to see or a purple dwarf in assless chaps will put an injunction on you.
  • (2) The truth: This is clever and kooky music, but obviously miles from the Kooks .
  • (3) They all followed a similar template: remember the kooky, pudding-bowl kid from About a Boy ?
  • (4) Instead, let’s focus on the Republican argument that this is a kooky misunderstanding.
  • (5) That aversion to cruelty has stayed with him; the worst you could say about his work is that it's whimsical or excessively kooky at times, but it never wants for compassion.
  • (6) It's similarly disingenuous to pretend that this is a matter of a few, kooky individuals (albeit ones at the top of the Ukip hierarchy).
  • (7) Giannini's first since becoming a mother, it demonstrated two things: how she is a perfect fit for this most Italian of brands, and the move of fashion's focus from the warehouses and kooky references of London fashion week to the high-class hotels and all-out glamour of Milan.
  • (8) Of these, Dusty Springfield was the most technically proficient and the most temperamental; Lulu had the most powerful vocal cords but weaker songs; Sandie Shaw had a trendy, kooky image and songs to match; and Black benefited hugely from her association with the Beatles – John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed several of her hits – and their manager Brian Epstein.
  • (9) All of us can point to the kooky one, the dumb one, the OCD one in our own friendship groups.
  • (10) Perfection is out and kooky is in, say observers, and to stand out on the catwalk now you need more than a conventionally pretty face and a stick-thin physique.
  • (11) more words from the Guardian's chief pop critic Alexis Petridis Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon All its idiosyncracies of songwriting and arrangement and delivery feel meant: unlike some of the artists to whom she's been compared, you're never struck by the sensation Mvula is killing herself to appear kooky that man Alexis Petridis yet again Rudimental – Home There are impressive contributions, including one from the reliably fearsome Angel Haze, but the band's roving sensibilities – garage, house, R&B – don't always come together.
  • (12) Far less so than is normal even in the kooky looking-glass world of film.
  • (13) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) were carefully wrought examples of swamp gothic – unashamedly ornate, lush and impressionistic, and for all its metropolitan sass, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Capote's third novel, in which he gave us the kooky, amoral Holly Golightly, also had its roots in the deep south.
  • (14) "That makes me sound disrespectful," he says, "but I just think of these people as my kooky distant relatives," he says.
  • (15) There is an outside chance, in a film, that the heroine might be kooky or her best friend might make funny faces.
  • (16) And Jerry Brown, who led the state before the crisis, was remembered, if at all, as "Governor Moonbeam", a kooky, distant predecessor to the baroque Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • (17) Displaying other talents, or having a unique selling point – whether that means being kooky and cute, showing a rare openness on social media like Delevingne, or taking on a different persona outside of modelling, such as Jourdan Dunn and her baking – helps audiences around the globe to connect, encouraging brands and designers to seek out and employ these women.
  • (18) Yet despite her own version of the hat and the waistcoat – the dyed fringe, the occultish homemade tattoos – Claire insists that Grimes is not a kooky persona that she slips on and off with her rings.
  • (19) It seemed so obvious, but everybody else seemed to think I was kooky."
  • (20) Kooky play, Pagan is on second, and the inning continues!

Outlandish


Definition:

  • (a.) Foreign; not native.
  • (a.) Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not outlandish to ask whether different central governments have deliberately promoted development elsewhere.
  • (2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
  • (3) Likewise, Brynjolfsson doesn’t find the idea of machine-generated populist luxury outlandish.
  • (4) Alfred McTear's objections are not as outlandish as they might seem.
  • (5) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
  • (6) Donald Trump has made his outlandish policy of forcing Mexico to pay for his giant wall the centerpiece of his campaign,” said Podesta.
  • (7) For environmentalists his mining activities are no less outlandish.
  • (8) An 8% interest rate is not outlandish; the fact it strikes us as so is a measure of how addicted we are to cheap credit.
  • (9) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
  • (10) As Perry has got older, Claire’s outfits have become increasingly outlandish (he has called her Bo Peep look the “crack cocaine of femininity”).
  • (11) You get these music videos the kids love, where it’s completely outlandish, luxury everywhere.
  • (12) Natasha and the other women say that Gary talks of the Raëlian philosophy of sexual freedom, but absolutely deny that the treatment has been used as an attempt to convert them to the outlandish religion.
  • (13) The only person dressed more outlandishly than Ross and he foolishly hugs her like an adolescent.
  • (14) Anything was considered, no matter how outlandish.” A former caterer, O’Regan had a long string of innovations behind him, including the establishment of the world’s first duty free shop at the Shannon airport in 1947 after the Irish parliament passed a new law , the Customs Free Act, which exempted transit and embarking passengers, goods and aircraft from normal customs procedures.
  • (15) The positive case for remaining in the EU will also be made by the Scottish National party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond , on Monday, when he will condemn the warnings about the risks of Brexit as, “at best puerile and at worst outlandish scaremongering”.
  • (16) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
  • (17) Presented with Trump’s statement that he would go beyond waterboarding, Burr simply replied: “I would not support bringing back waterboarding.” Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump surrogate who sits on the Senate armed services committee, sought to downplay some of the billionaire’s more outlandish comments on torture and targeting the families of terrorists.
  • (18) He is in many ways a fascinating player all round: a beautifully balanced two-footed playmaker who is at the same time not particularly athletic, not particularly quick, not particularly strong, not blessed with disorienting charisma or given to outlandish moments of extraordinary skill.
  • (19) The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
  • (20) Trump has been tabloid fodder for decades, for a colorful personal life, a propensity for outlandish statements and, of course, his hair.