cockeyed
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I’m enough of a cockeyed optimist to believe that exposure to different cultures, to ways of being in, looking at and talking about the world, can cure a person of prejudice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
Mr. Braun, who appeared in the series “Succession,” is a good foot taller than his co-star, giving an amusing physical aspect to their cockeyed friendship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Likewise, the cockeyed view of these Texans, who sometimes, but not always, let other people get away with things, is endearing.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
Yet MacColl — who died at 41 in 2000 — is omnipresent each holiday season: It’s her voice offering tart rejoinders to Shane MacGowan in the Pogues’ cockeyed Christmas anthem “Fairytale of New York.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
This cockeyed, slapped-together nine-foot by twelve-foot claim shack...my home.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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