Meaning of mookish | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a mook; foolish; bumbling.

Examples

“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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