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词汇 cockeyed
释义 cockeyed
adjective
uk /ˌkɒkˈaɪd/ us /ˌkɑːkˈaɪd/

cockeyedadjective (SLOPING)


informal
not straight, but sloping to one side: 斜的,歪的
Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.把那边那幅画摆正一点好吗?——有点歪。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
acclivity
angled
anteversion
anteverted
askew
inclination
incline
lean
lopsided
lopsidedly
lopsidedness
oblique
obliquely
rake
skew-whiff
slant
slanting
slantingly
slantwise
steep

cockeyedadjective (STUPID)


used to describe a plan or idea that is stupid, not suitable, or not likely to be successful: (计划或主意)荒唐的,不合适的,不切实际的
The government has dreamed up some cockeyed scheme for getting unemployed youngsters back into work.政府凭空想出某个荒谬的计划,想通过它让失业青年重新找到工作。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stupid and silly
absurd
absurdity
absurdly
adolescent
against your better judgmentidiom
dopily
dorky
dottiness
dotty
dozily
in his/her/their wisdomidiom
in someone's infinite wisdomidiom
inadvisable
injudicious
injudiciously
uncritical
uncritically
undiscriminating
unintelligent
unperceptive

cockeyedadjective (DRUNK)


mainly USold-fashionedinformal
having drunk too much alcohol酒醉的,喝醉酒的
Synonym
drunk
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drunkenness & sobriety
alky
battered
beer goggles
binge drinker
binge drinking
blasted
drunk dial
have a few (too many)idiom
in a drunken stupor
inebriate
inebriated
inebriating
muzzy
ripped
roaring drunkidiom
shit-faced
slaughtered
slewed
smashed
whacked

cockeyed | American Dictionary


cockeyed
adjective, adverb
us/ˈkɑkˌɑɪd/

cockeyedadjective, adverb (SLOPING)


not level but set at an angle:
That picture looks cockeyed – it tilts to the left.
cockeyed
adjective
us/ˈkɑkˌɑɪd/

cockeyedadjective (RIDICULOUS)


completely unreasonable; ridiculous:
The movie is based on a cockeyed premise.

Examples of cockeyed


cockeyed
The statistics for quotas are comical and cockeyed.
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It is the most cockeyed idea yet, and dangerously silly at that.
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I think that we are getting into a thoroughly cockeyed, idiotic state in the way these things are being handled under our legislation.
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That is a cockeyed way of doing things.
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I can only conclude that it was a pretty cockeyed judgment.
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Is this not, after all, a cockeyed idea?
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Surely, that is a cockeyed sense of values.
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It is cockeyed when electricity is divorced from gas and electricity and gas are divorced from water.
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Another important point about land is that the system of valuation is cockeyed.
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Let us for heaven's sake not get this thing cockeyed by putting the wrong label, or the right label in the wrong way, on it.
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I am not complaining in any way, but it seemed to me that this arrangement was really cockeyed.
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The unions even refused to give evidence to the commission because they recognised that the terms of reference were cockeyed.
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We have a changing situation and our present policy seems to me to be completely cockeyed.
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That seems to me to be a cockeyed way of doing things.
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Procedure on the matter has been rather cockeyed.
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