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Meanings of cockeyed in English
Incongruous; inviting ridicule.
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Examples for "awry"
Examples for "awry"
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In Federer's case, the second set is where things started going awry.
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Eight months before this crisis, a routine day had gone terribly awry.
3
The lieutenant managed to fight his way through, his hat knocked awry.
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He sees in time little else; his very sincereness twists him awry.
5
Something about the best-laid plans of mice and men often going awry?
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This lopsided development matters because India needs to create lots of jobs.
2
Such lopsided trades often result in subsequent underperformance, a Reuters analysis found.
3
The lopsided, partisan structure has led to mission creep, former officers say.
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Such a scenario could spur lopsided consumer demand in the United States.
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Until then, this tournament is looking awfully lopsided in the first week.
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She knew that from this point on reality would be slightly askew.
2
Now, something has knocked askew the calibrations developed over thousands of years.
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He knotted his tie hurriedly, askew; and gathered the ends once more.
4
The iron rudely caressed my body; flailing limbs knocked my glasses askew.
5
Her glasses were still askew, Jessaline saw with a rush of fondness.
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All of them are wonky, broken; all of them are purely perfect.
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The wonky house was my first proper entrée into Russian domestic life.
3
Your computer's Wi-Fi being wonky after an OS update has isolated effects.
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Thus, to appreciate wonky-ugly proves that you have a rarefied fashion eye.
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He had a wonky eye and he didn't speak English very well.
1
Mr Kusher warned that since the financial crisis "things are skew-whiff".
2
This story is definitely true, it's just the details that might be a little skew-whiff.
Usage of cockeyed in English
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His ex-wife espoused a cockeyed fiscal philosophy that made very expensive sense.
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His cockeyed version of the Story of our Country for one thing.
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In the end he left the post standing cockeyed in the stream.
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We'll put it this way, to start: Something cockeyed is going on.
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Graphic: China's GDP: slower and more slippery Real growth rates are similarly cockeyed.
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She fixed a flag that had gone cockeyed and looked at her watch.
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The windows were uneven, giving the house a rather cockeyed look.
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It came out a bit cockeyed, that smile, a little forced.
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Yet, it was that cockeyed facial expression that eventually made him a star.
10
She put the hat on again, at a slightly cockeyed angle.
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He felt the hatch lift an inch, then catch, cockeyed in its slot.
12
You turned my head all cockeyed more than twenty years ago.
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That's a cockeyed way of looking at the agency's budget, Tether tells Danger Room.
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It seems everything has become a little cockeyed, and a great deal more impersonal.
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Police weren't convinced and made all sorts of cockeyed theories.
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Quinn smoothed a label, a bit cockeyed, onto a box.
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