[
US
/ˌkɔkəˈmeɪmi/
]
[ UK /kˈɒkɐmˌæmi/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒkɐmˌæmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
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