cockeyed

Example Sentences

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Her painful and cockeyed attempts to help Benny will resonate with anyone who ever parented a teenager.

From Los Angeles Times

With all this in mind, Creede Rep’s origin story feels even more unlikely, a half-century odyssey fueled by cockeyed optimism, can-do perseverance and disparate folks figuring out how to live together.

From New York Times

“The more offenders convicted in circuit court, the more money awarded,” wrote The Post’s Antonio Olivo, detailing the cockeyed set of priorities that have incentivized the failed policies of the past 30 years.

From Washington Post

That the Articles of Confederation and the Alien and Sedition Acts were cockeyed.

From New York Times

While he spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.

From Seattle Times