How to Use wacko in a Sentence

wacko

adjective
  • This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The ingredient labels are wacko, some of the prices are ridiculous and the advertising claims are laughable.
    — Lori Nickel, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • But the downside of the mockery is glibness; if only the racists and terrorists of the world came as clearly labeled as this flagrantly wacko crew.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • So after every shooting massacre, when more innocent people are murdered by some wacko with a firearm designed for mass killing, there’s tough talk, screaming and flailing for a few days.
    — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • There is none of, say, Stone’s wacko conspiracy theorizing from JFK.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Plemons is simply next level in this one, a balls-out performance of high wacko dimension that somehow manages to be grounded in humanity, even pathos for this poor thing.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Ashley also seems to think that whoever killed the girls did it for popularity, a wacko theory that gets put to the test when she and John are collectively shunned at the house party.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2018
  • People who see ghosts tend to see the same ghost wafting down the same staircase, but none of the characters populating Leo’s wacko hallucinations have returned for a repeat perfor-mance.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps a misguided missile launched by the wacko dictator in North Korea that winds up thousands of miles off course and explodes above a suburb of Pyongyang, instead.
    — vanityfair.com, 6 June 2017
  • This was at a time when conservatives were almost ridiculed on law school campuses, where the notion of using the original intentions of the framers to make decisions was seen as laughable, almost wacko, method of constitutional interpretation.
    — Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • One Battle After Another is based very loosely on the basic outline, and some of the less-surreal elements, of Thomas Pynchon’s wacko novel Vineland.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Bolton is a more serious and well-disciplined version of the chaotic Steve Bannon, or the president’s first national security advisor, the wacko Mike Flynn.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The satirical film’s superficially wacko plot involving an assassination attempt on the progressive prime minister of Malaysia to allow the fashion industry to retain cheap child labor in that country now seems kind of prophetic.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2016
  • Featuring four distinct stories (including Overlook hit MLM), this zany, bloody, wacko tale of inequality is sure to galvanize anyone who has ever felt lost in a sea of menial repetitious tasks.
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026

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