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ADJECTIVE
  1. informal term for ridiculous and implausible
    he gave me a cockamamie reason for not going

How To Use cockamamy In A Sentence

  • In the end they picked me up on the street for some cockamamy charge and held me, just for an hour, nothing very terrible.
  • Donald R. Morris The Houston Post In "The Joys and Oys of Yiddish" [XV,3], Messrs. Lederer and Schenkerman put the word cockamamy VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
  • So now he looked somehow less of a man because he refused to fight her cockamamy wars. Broken Symmetry
  • I wasn't the one who talked me into this cockamamy adventure in the first place.
  • I went along with this cockamamy plan to blame India because you told me to look at the bigger picture. A Good Man is Hard to Find
  • He told me a story about how he duped some UFO buff with a cockamamy story about how he witnessed a UFO.
  • Come on now, Peter, please don't try to flatter me with some kind of cockamamy line about love at first sight," she said, giving him a look that told him she wouldn't begin to believe it if he tried. From This Beloved Hour
  • Plz oh plz oh plz show me the poll that backs up this cockamamy assertion. Poll: Obama Slips Against McCain, Now Losing Among Independents
  • FITZWATER: Well, the "cockamamy" part of the idea that a President is going to be so intimidated by the press or wilt under the pressure and walk out of the Presidency, or something like that. Call the Briefing! Bush & Reagan, Sam & Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press
  • He lay with his legs on his king-sized bed and his body folded forward off the edge, toward the floor, in what looked suspiciously like a cockamamy approximation of a Downward-Facing Dog. The Ex Games
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