cockeyed
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7.6
- adjective
- /ˈkɑːkiˌaɪd/
:
torcido
- Or is that picture really cockeyed?
- cockeyed angle
Examples
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Checkers out, hat on cockeyed, pants inside his boots.
Fiction book (1990) -
Pretty green eyes and a wry, cockeyed smile.
Fiction book (2002) -
The only one you wanted to keep had six toes and was cockeyed to boot.
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I'm measuring off this cockeyed deck.
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Jeez, everything is so cockeyed.
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I think those blankets must be a little cockeyed.
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The grin is huge, but cockeyed.
Fiction book (2002) -
That arrangement was cockeyed, Nils thought, and just the opposite of the way it had been with their parents and the way it ought to be, period.
Fiction book (1995) -
She no longer wanted to claw her wrists when she looked at the cockeyed tilt of Ben's baseball cap, the crease in his nose when he smiled.
Fiction book (1996) -
The picture hung cockeyed on the wall, making the room feel uneven.
Synonyms
58
2.5
Not straight in shape, like a path or a smile
19
4.3
Uneven because one side is lower, smaller, or heavier
13
6.0
Not straight or level and turned to one side
6
7.7
Not steady or straight and likely to wobble
5
4.7
Not straight or level and often wrong because of a personal view
2
6.8
Not in the correct position and turned to one side
1
7.0
Twisted to one side so it is not straight
1
4.4
Leaning to one side and not level
Not straight or level but turned a little to one side
Antonyms
How Crooked
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cockeyed comes from the parts cock 'to tilt' and eye 'eye', so it originally described an eye or object that was turned to one side. That's why cockeyed means something is not straight or level.