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

cockeyedadjective(SLOPING)

informal
notstraight, butslopingto oneside:
斜的，歪的
Would youstraightenthatpictureover there? - It's abitcockeyed.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
  • angle
  • angled
  • askew
  • bank
  • cocked
  • obliquely
  • pitch
  • pitched
  • raked
  • roll
  • shelve
  • skew
  • slanted
  • slope
  • steep
  • steepen
  • tilt
  • tip(something/someone)over
  • tippy
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cockeyedadjective(STUPID)

used todescribeaplanorideathat isstupid, notsuitable, or notlikelyto besuccessful:
（计划或主意）荒唐的，不合适的，不切实际的
Thegovernmenthasdreamedup some cockeyedschemefor gettingunemployedyoungstersback intowork.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
  • againstyourbetter judgmentidiom
  • dopey
  • dorky
  • dottiness
  • dotty
  • dozily
  • impolitic
  • imprudent
  • inhis/her/theirwisdomidiom
  • insomeone'sinfinite wisdomidiom
  • inadvisable
  • uncritically
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasonably
  • unwise
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cockeyedadjective(DRUNK)

mainlyUSold-fashionedinformal
havingdrunktoo muchalcohol
酒醉的，喝醉酒的
Synonym
drunk
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Drunkenness & sobriety
  • alcoholic
  • alky
  • battered
  • beer goggles
  • binge drinker
  • binge drinking
  • blasted
  • drunk dial
  • inebriate
  • inebriated
  • inebriating
  • inebriation
  • influence
  • muzzy
  • roaring drunkidiom
  • shit-faced
  • slaughtered
  • slewed
  • sloshed
  • whacked
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(Definition ofcockeyedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

cockeyed| American Dictionary

cockeyed
adjective,adverb
us
/ˈkɑkˌɑɪd/

cockeyedadjective,adverb(SLOPING)

notlevelbut set at anangle:
Thatpicturelookscockeyed – ittiltsto theleft.
cockeyed
adjective
us
/ˈkɑkˌɑɪd/

cockeyedadjective(RIDICULOUS)

completelyunreasonable;ridiculous:
Themovieisbasedon a cockeyedpremise.
(Definition ofcockeyedfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The statistics for quotas are comical andcockeyed.
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It is the mostcockeyedidea yet, and dangerously silly at that.
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I think that we are getting into a thoroughlycockeyed, idiotic state in the way these things are being handled under our legislation.
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That is acockeyedway of doing things.
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I can only conclude that it was a prettycockeyedjudgment.
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Is this not, after all, acockeyedidea?
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Surely, that is acockeyedsense of values.
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It iscockeyedwhen 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 iscockeyed.
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Let us for heaven's sake not get this thingcockeyedby 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 reallycockeyed.
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The unions even refused to give evidence to the commission because they recognised that the terms of reference werecockeyed.
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We have a changing situation and our present policy seems to me to be completelycockeyed.
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That seems to me to be acockeyedway of doing things.
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Procedure on the matter has been rathercockeyed.
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