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Meanings of cockamamie in English

Ludicrous, foolish.

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Examples for "silly"
Examples for "silly"
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He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
2
I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
3
Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
4
They were just silly, ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
The Old Wives' Tale
5
The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
A Face Illumined
1
Do they really need to wear what are often pretty goofy-looking caps?
The Irish Times
2
I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.
Feminist dot com
3
The doll's worth a lot more without the shoes and goofy platform.
Goodbye dolly
4
It was a goofy plan, but that meant Alex would love it.
The Vanished
5
John Biggs at Techcrunch wrote: Nokia is famous for making goofy phones.
The Guardian
1
The months ahead are likely to start on a rather wacky note.
The South African
2
A few years ago, a company called Spaceflight had a wacky plan.
Wired
3
One year I even participated in, and won, the wacky wellies competition.
The Irish Times
4
As wacky as that is, it does have a link to reality.
Reuters
5
And did he accept that signing the petition was a bit wacky?
Radio NZ
1
On the practice courts another really zany Team Murray forfeit going on.
The Guardian
2
Feet prints:The revival of Celia Birtwell and her zany prints continues apace.
The Irish Times
3
So there he caught me lying like a zany on the ground.
Moonfleet
4
She had been so wild and zany when he first met her.
Lightning
5
The tone is as zany and as thoughtful as everything he writes.
The Irish Times
1
And as sappy as it may sound, I love living in love.
Reuters
2
But in suburban California, only sappy, ostentatious Kinkades get treated like art.
The whole world: a novel
3
The wind had got into the sou' west, too- adeliciousair, sappy!
Five Tales
4
The best way to honor mothers is not with sappy sentimentality.
Feminist dot com
5
I don't want to sound sentimental or sappy, she's worth more than that.
The Guardian
1
But they do have a whacky scheme and a pair of Hitler's cufflinks.
The Irish Times
2
She was known as Mad Madge for her seemingly whacky theories.
Radio NZ
3
Am I being a whacky parent, or were there others that thought like me?
Reuters
4
By Joe Schmidt standards, it seems almost wild and whacky.
The Irish Times
5
The Chief muttered, Something whacky here... come round, you!
Space Tug
1
Or is it part of some cockamamy story dreamed up by the ISA?
The Complete Rama Omnibus
2
"This whole cockamamy scheme that the two of you should spend time together," Bryan explained.
Michael's discovery
Usage of cockamamie in English
1
What do we tell nice children about their ugly scribbles and cockamamie ideas?
The new yorker
2
What kind of a cockamamie Life is this for me?
Further adventures
3
That cockamamie story about the ball, that's bullshit.
The Yankee Years
4
Where to begin with this cockamamie tale?
Reuters
5
Conscious on one side of the net, subconscious on the other, serving some cockamamie image back and forth.
The Shining
6
The statement included not a shred of solid forensic evidence-justa cockamamie conspiracy theory spun out to fantastic lengths.
The monster of florence
7
And then there was his cockamamie plan to find out if Roman Brach was who he said he was.
A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
8
He calls the number and says he wants to join, making up some cockamamie story about his sister being brutalised.
News.com.au
9
Harry ordered me to take the day off, citing some cockamamie theory about germs and stress and karma and longevity.
206 Bones
10
Boy that cockamamie cat.
The new yorker
11
A man's own life was just a whole shitload more important than any cockamamie plan dreamed up by some general or staff officer.
Surrender to the will of the night
12
To be an enthusiast for no deal or the cockamamie "Malthouse" plan are litmus tests of the judgment and responsibility necessary to hold public office.
The Guardian
13
"You mean with that Columbia professor and all his cockamamie ideas?"
In the shadow of gotham
14
"Coming up with a cockamamie plan that near got us killed?"
Dark pursuit
15
"Well now, there you go, running off on one of your cockamamie conspiracy theories."
Frozen Heat
16
"I doubt there's anything you can say that will make me believe some cockamamie story about zombies running around on Long Island."
Once bitten, twice dead
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