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US
/ˈkɑˌkaɪd/
]
[ UK /kˈɒkɪd/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒkɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- very drunk
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turned or twisted toward one side
a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry
his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff -
so unreasonable as to invite derision
the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework
it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion
her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history
that's a cockeyed idea
ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer
a contribution so small as to be laughable
How To Use cockeyed In A Sentence
- The figures in Graham's work often look cockeyed.
- Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
- It's this kind of muddled headed logic that seems now so typical of his cockeyed view on many issues.
- Does this readiness to invest in so-called safety devices represent sheer barking madness or a rather admirable brand of cockeyed optimism?
- His designs pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins, who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns. Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
- With his day's growth of stubble, short black hair and cockeyed smile he seemed more like a rogue or highwayman than magician.
- He lacks customary deference to party elders (and to the media's own cockeyed definition of reality).
- They are just a bunch of cockeyed optimists, those stock analysts.
- In the middle of filming of the movie, he arrived on the set weaving and cockeyed.
- ‘I need to keep this job you know,’ she said with a cockeyed grin.
