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- adjective UK Having both
eyes orientedinward . - adjective UK
Crooked oraskew . - adjective UK, informal Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
cockeyed .
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Examples
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He would hold his head at a cock-eyed angle close to the ground, as if to confirm where the ground was.
Pet Talk: Memories are tribute to my beloved, departed dog Rufus 2009
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Furthermore, hearing the cock-eyed view of the various cities in Brecht's text sung in German might have helped bewildered American audiences understand this as a foreigner's view of the U.S.—one that, among other oddities, equates Louisiana with a city.
Seven Sins, Both Deadly and Dull Robert Greskovic 2011
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Like the way he shifted the blame from cock-eyed government policy to the individual?
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They bring back memories of the time when only cock-eyed optimists thought the Evil Empire would ever disappear, but we could nonetheless make fun of it.
Eastern Europe 2009
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Like the way he shifted the blame from cock-eyed government policy to the individual?
End of Asian civilisation as we know it — Fusion Despatches 2009
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MOSCOW - Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, given to startlingly apt if occasionally cock-eyed aphorisms, was a ruefully calming influence during his five years as Russian prime minister in the tumultuous 1990s.
Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin's stolid prime minister, dies Will Englund 2010
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MOSCOW - Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, given to startlingly apt if occasionally cock-eyed aphorisms, was a ruefully calming influence during his five years as Russian prime minister in the tumultuous 1990s.
Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin's stolid prime minister, dies Will Englund 2010
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The concept of the Church's catholicity was a good two centuries old by Nicea ... interestingly, (and I think someone like Möhler offers a cock-eyed interpretation of Ignatius on this), Ignatius sets up an analogy whereby the congregation is found with the bishop just as "wherever Jesus Christ is, there also is the katholike ekklesia."
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MOSCOW - Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, given to startlingly apt if occasionally cock-eyed aphorisms, was a ruefully calming influence during his five years as Russian prime minister in the tumultuous 1990s.
Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin's stolid prime minister, dies Will Englund 2010
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It's true that you don't have to be a cock-eyed optimist to find an enchanted evening in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, what with the yawning allure of "Bali Ha'i" and the mournful resonance of "This Nearly Was Mine", rendered here by the strongest voice of the evening, the vibrating operatic Brazilian Paulo Szot.
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