quixote

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixote
Noun
  • Kai Havertz’s finishing, for example, or Kylian Mbappe’s work rate, or the gradual erosion of Jack Grealish’s maverick edge.
    Rory Smith, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Overall, there were palpable achievements, not a few of which involved reminding Americans of the importance of core structural values as the maverick extremes of political discourse exploded in their influence.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Residence is a screwball whodunit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world's most famous mansion.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Baker at first gives us a whirlwind, screwball romance; then, after spinning us around a few times, leads us to one of those great movie endings that’s both staggering and gentle.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • German immigrants founded and built the club, and in later decades Nature Friends became a hub for numerous groups: some esoteric, some nonconformist and others looking for a rustic place to chill.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Invariably, memorials devoted to these two nonconformists emphasized their complicated personalities.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 July 2024
Noun
  • The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook.
    Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
  • For the pogues and kooks who've already torn through the first half of the new season of Outer Banks, season 4 part 2 is on its way.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Otto is also suicidal — something A Man Called Otto never sufficiently dramatizes, cheapening the codger’s despair as the film prepares for the feel-good ending to come.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Would love to know what these career eccentrics make of the pomp and pageantry of the Grammys.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Foreman was one of the last living crossover theatrical eccentrics, an outsider artist whose philosophically rigorous work for downtown micro-audiences alternated with engagements at Lincoln Center and the Festival d’Automne, in Paris.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, centuries of bizarre medical solutions have proven that a small volume of patients can seemingly recover from almost any condition regardless of whatever crackpot solution is administered.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Bobby Kennedy and his crackpot ideas will do great harm to Americans.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Would that generally be your advice to the next weirdo in the cast?
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Her versatility as a performer laid the groundwork for future legends like Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon to embrace their own eccentric weirdos.
    Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixote. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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