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View synonyms for cockeyed
cockeyed
[ kok-ahyd ]
adjective
- having a squinting eye.
- twisted, tilted, or slanted to one side.
- Slang.
- foolish; absurd.
- intoxicated; drunk.
- completely wrong.
cockeyed
/ ˈkɒkˌaɪd /
adjective
- afflicted with cross-eye, squint, or any other visible abnormality of the eyes
- appearing to be physically or logically abnormal, absurd, etc; crooked; askew
cockeyed ideas
- drunk
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Other Words From
- cock·eyed·ly [kok, -ahyd-lee, -ahy-id-], adverb
- cockeyedness noun
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Example Sentences
He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.
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Except on the one subject of that cockeyed invention of his, he behaved perfectly normally.
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Another wild goose chase, but somewhere along this cockeyed row there was an angle.
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I fumbled around for a beginning, and then I decided to start right at the beginning, whether it sounded cockeyed or not.
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After only two weeks on the job, on a strange planet ninety light-years from home, you don't tell your boss he's cockeyed.
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Sure, and maybe that was a very cockeyed view for Dawson to take, too.
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