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cockeyed

/kok-ahyd/US // ˈkɒkˌaɪd //UK // (ˈkɒkˌaɪd) //

狂妄的,狂妄自大,狂妄自大的,狂妄的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cross-eyed.
    • : having a squinting eye.
    • : twisted, tilted, or slanted to one side.
    • : Slang. foolish; absurd.intoxicated; drunk.completely wrong.

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Examples

  • He 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.

  • He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.

  • Except on the one subject of that cockeyed invention of his, he behaved perfectly normally.

  • Another wild goose chase, but somewhere along this cockeyed row there was an angle.

  • I fumbled around for a beginning, and then I decided to start right at the beginning, whether it sounded cockeyed or not.

  • After only two weeks on the job, on a strange planet ninety light-years from home, you don't tell your boss he's cockeyed.

  • Sure, and maybe that was a very cockeyed view for Dawson to take, too.