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Meanings of cockamamy in English

Ludicrous, foolish.

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Examples for "silly"
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He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
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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
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
Usage of cockamamy in English
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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