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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
- His designs pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins, who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns.
- There is a cedar wreath with dried flowers leaning at a cockeyed angle against the cross.
- Ted Shane was employed by Judge magazine, for which I made both cartoons and "cockeyed" crosswords in the 1930s. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
- Craig is played by Keir Gilchrist, from "United States of Tara"; he's got a sweet spirit and a cockeyed Paul Simon smile. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
- But wait until you hear the gorgeous "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine" as sung by bass-baritone David Pittsinger, who portrays Emile de Becque, the smooth French wooer of the cockeyed American optimist, Ensign Nellie Forbush. Smooth sailing
- Why lounge around in a bar, spending money, when you could get cockeyed on the clock while dollars rolled into your pocket?
- Pausing briefly to ask oneself how the word "cockeyed" translates into Berlin vernacular, one next inquires how the theory could have been more preposterous than at first appeared. NYT > Home Page
- At this juncture, even a cockeyed optimist has difficulty seeing much hope.
- She burst into the hovel, knocking the cockeyed door from its lone rusty hinge.
- And if Glenn Beck and his "cockeyed" interpretations of the Washington power grabbers scare you, it proves you are a thinking person, and maybe you need to be scared - of what is about to change everything we all believed this country was about. Naplesnews.com Stories
