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as in tilted
inclined or twisted to one side
rakishly wears his hat a little cockeyed
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as in foolish
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
a cockeyed scheme to build a shopping mall in the middle of nowhere
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as in drunken
being under the influence of alcohol
don't trust a thing that Wilson tells you when he's cockeyed
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Recent Examples of cockeyed
Gunn the cockeyed empathetic optimist didn’t make his public debut until the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
But then come the passages of cockeyed brilliance—such as this one, yoking Nicholas’s philosophical meditation on the nature of subjective perception to the 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island.
—Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Even Marty, one of the nicer guys on display in Coen and Cooke’s cockeyed crime movie, hits on Honey with an annoying relentlessness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Despite her moods, which could be epic, Ann typically evinced a kind of cockeyed pluck, a hummingbird baseline that stood in contrast to mania.
—Ned Zeman, Outside, 14 Nov. 2021
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
But then come the passages of cockeyed brilliance—such as this one, yoking Nicholas’s philosophical meditation on the nature of subjective perception to the 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island.
—Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Even Marty, one of the nicer guys on display in Coen and Cooke’s cockeyed crime movie, hits on Honey with an annoying relentlessness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Despite her moods, which could be epic, Ann typically evinced a kind of cockeyed pluck, a hummingbird baseline that stood in contrast to mania.
—Ned Zeman, Outside, 14 Nov. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cockeyed
Adjective
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The Escalade also offers a large head up display and a tilted control panel to provide quick access to climate and other functions.—
Scotty Reiss,
Parents,
24 Feb. 2026
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Naturally, Uranus' tilted rotation has a part to play in how auroral activity manifests on the planet.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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But asking a 30-year-old with balky legs to carry this burden is dangerous, if not foolish.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
5 Mar. 2026
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Shitposting, Topinka explains, makes good-faith engagement impossible and critics look foolish because the shitposter is plausibly joking.—
Malavika Kannan,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2026
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Hodgson was arrested the next month after allegedly getting in a drunken fight with Long Beach police outside a Shoreline Village bar.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Timberlake agreed to give a public safety announcement against the perils of drunken driving as part of the plea deal that knocked down his initial misdemeanor charge to a noncriminal traffic violation.—
Philip Marcelo,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military or travel, none.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel.—
TIME Staff,
Time,
25 Feb. 2026
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These people out here are stupid.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Besides, each unmasking is stupid and anticlimactic in its own way.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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And Wolff knew it when describing the emotions in the team hospitality unit after the race, where glasses of champagne sat nearby, waiting to be drunk by team members.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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He gets kicked out of school for being drunk.—
Jessica Lipsky,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Heating elements must survive high temperatures, constant airflow and uneven heat distribution.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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But employer coverage of obesity drugs remains uneven due to high costs, leaving roughly half of people with commercial insurance unable to start or stay on treatment, Lilly said in a release.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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Gore said half in surprise and half in jest after lasting just 1⅔ innings in a 15-9 win over Kansas City, which wasn’t even the silliest game in the West Valley on a gusty Thursday.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Mar. 2026
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The fever dream of a sequel that’s also a prequel takes everything good about the first movie and turns it up to 100, happily ignoring any dose of realism in favor of silly, colorful, karaoke-ready fun.—
Rachel Simon,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Cockeyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cockeyed. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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