What does mookish mean?
Mookish means Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling..
Mookish
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling..
Example Sentences
He drops the phrase my vision a lot, although he hasn't quite defined it beyond wanting to be huge. But despite this and his more than slightly mookish image, Durst is extremely down-home friendly (he was raised in the deep South) and obsessed with pleasing his fans, even if it means playing the clown.
The small hovels and junkyards outside Basra look like a Star Wars set: I'm waiting for a bunch of mookish little guys to attack us with sticks, but instead we find two guys pushing handcarts loaded with rolls of heavy power cable along the side of the highway.
The first is the “mookish,” pot smoking, dimwit movie character type or moron in a beer commercial.
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Word Forms
- more mookish
- most mookish
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He drops the phrase my vision a lot, although he hasn't quite defined it beyond wanting to be huge. But despite this and his more than slightly mookish image, Durst is extremely down-home friendly (he was raised in the deep South) and obsessed with pleasing his fans, even if it means playing the clown.
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