"cockeyed" is an appropriate word for use in written English.
It means "askew, off-kilter, or lopsided." It can be used to describe physical objects or behavior. Example: The crooked tower leaned cockeyed, threatening to collapse at any moment.
And the prosecution was allowed to propose a string of possible motives (including none at all).So is Italian justice cockeyed?
But the low standard by which progress is judged and the limited expectations of even the most cockeyed optimists are signs of deeper trouble in America's political system.
We are all cockeyed optimists in that sense, believing companies would surely know if there were problems, and believing that they wouldn't issue a new release without addressing them.
And how the mayor's office was at that moment considering a quaint but cockeyed approach for the season's Christmas lighting scheme: stringing lights around the city's hundreds of shuttered storefronts.
Hips, Hips, Hooray and Cockeyed Cavaliers (both 1934) were popular Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey comedies.
Tonight, in front of a small audience surrounding a ploughed field in Penzance, the ambitious Worcester will put their long-term business plan on the line at the end of a second-tier Championship campaign so unloved by the rugby public that they consider the phrase "hopelessly cockeyed" to be a compliment.
This is but the first of several coup de théâtre including a "helicopter" flying over the audience, aswirl in smoke and spotlights, a buoy bobbing across the stage, and a tragicomic sitting-room tableau set in a submerged room of cockeyed Caligari-esque angles.
Richards is full of cockeyed advice for the potential junkie and voyeur: no mainlining, take only the best and purest drugs, and, please, never overdo it.
Police weren't convinced and made all sorts of cockeyed theories.
A thick coat of dust darkened a stack of plastic chairs growing more cockeyed as they ascended a stucco wall.
