Thesaurus / cockeyed
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For that bit of cockeyed optimism, NASA has history on its side.
NASA'S MEGA MOON ROCKET IS FLUNKING ITS DRESS REHEARSALJEFFREY KLUGERAPRIL 15, 2022TIMEHe has the shiny vinyl good looks of a Ken doll and, when he wants to turn it on, a slightly vapid demeanor that comes off as cockeyed confidence.
RYAN REYNOLDS' CHARM CAN'T QUITE LIBERATE FREE GUY FROM A CLUTTERED PLOTSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKAUGUST 13, 2021TIMEExcept on the one subject of that cockeyed invention of his, he behaved perfectly normally.
GONE FISHINGJAMES H. SCHMITZAnother wild goose chase, but somewhere along this cockeyed row there was an angle.
HIGHWAYS IN HIDINGGEORGE OLIVER SMITHI fumbled around for a beginning, and then I decided to start right at the beginning, whether it sounded cockeyed or not.
HIGHWAYS IN HIDINGGEORGE OLIVER SMITHAfter only two weeks on the job, on a strange planet ninety light-years from home, you don't tell your boss he's cockeyed.
EXPLOITER'S ENDJAMES CAUSEYSure, and maybe that was a very cockeyed view for Dawson to take, too.
DAVE DAWSON ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTR. SIDNEY BOWENThere's no telling what can happen next in this cockeyed world.
DAVE DAWSON AT TRUKROBERT SYDNEY BOWENWell, I'd had the cockeyed kind of luck to go bald at 25 and I'd been playing old men ever since.
THE OLD DIE RICHHORACE LEONARD GOLDDawson had the insane urge to pinch himself hard just to make sure he wasn't sleeping through a very cockeyed dream.
DAVE DAWSON ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTR. SIDNEY BOWENWORDS RELATED TO COCKEYED
- aberrant
- abnormal
- anomalous
- beat
- bent
- bizarre
- capricious
- characteristic
- cockeyed
- cranky
- crazy
- curious
- droll
- erratic
- far-out
- flaky
- freak
- freakish
- funky
- funny
- idiosyncratic
- irregular
- kooky
- nutty
- odd
- oddball
- off the wall
- off-center
- offbeat
- out in left field
- outlandish
- peculiar
- quaint
- queer
- quirky
- quizzical
- singular
- strange
- uncommon
- unconventional
- unnatural
- unusual
- way-out
- weird
- whimsical
- wild
- astonishing
- beyond belief
- cockamamie
- cockeyed
- doubtful
- dubious
- far-fetched
- fishy
- flaky
- flimsy
- for the birds
- full of holes
- harebrained
- implausible
- impossible
- improbable
- incogitable
- inconceivable
- incredible
- kooky
- lamebrained
- open to doubt
- outlandish
- past belief
- phony
- preposterous
- questionable
- reaching
- scatterbrained
- screwy
- staggering
- suspect
- thick
- thin
- too much
- unconvincing
- unimaginable
- unsubstantial
- unthinkable
- weak
- won't hold water
- won't wash
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