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Definition of "cockeyed" [cockeyed]
- Informal Foolish; ridiculous; absurd: a cockeyed idea. (adjective)
- Informal Askew; crooked. (adjective)
- Informal Intoxicated; drunk. (adjective)
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Use "cockeyed" in a sentence
- "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."
- "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."
- "Actress/director Penny Marshall is laughing off reports she's battling cancer, insisting the media gets things "cockeyed" at times."
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