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cockamamie

[ US /ˌkɔkəˈmeɪmi/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒkɐmˌæmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. informal term for ridiculous and implausible
    he gave me a cockamamie reason for not going

How To Use cockamamie In A Sentence

  • The movie is in such a rush, charging headlong from crisis to fiasco, it's hard not to get carried away by its mad, cockamamie rhythm.
  • He had some cockamamie idea about turning waste paper into animal food.
  • This cockamamie human rights inquisition outfit found him guilty of hate.
  • Frankly, though, I think he's too nice about it: this ‘theory’ is so cockamamie that it belongs with the tin foil hat brigade.
  • Based on Sensor node, Script node and event transfer of VRML, a virtual assembly of complicated machine can be realized. But the process is rather cockamamie.
  • Once you have real evidence, not some conjectured, cockamamie theory, call me.
  • These are the kind of cockamamie questions that lead to life deficit disorder. Joe Robinson: The Invisible Epidemic of Life Deficit Disorder
  • No wonder they've been making such cockamamie decisions.
  • He even chided Sen. Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, for offering a "cockamamie" plan for partitioning Iraq. McCain Gambles
  • Since Crist's labeling a while back of these efforts as "cockamamie", it appears that he has logged a full workday recently enough to understand that those cockamamie efforts are finally coming to fruition. Florida Republican Party Rotting From Top Down
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