0 not straight, but sloping to one side:
Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
1 used to describe a plan or idea that is stupid, not suitable, or not likely to be successful:
The government has dreamed up some cockeyed scheme for getting unemployed youngsters back into work.
2 having drunk too much alcohol
The statistics for quotas are comical and cockeyed.
It is the most cockeyed idea yet, and dangerously silly at that.
I think that we are getting into a thoroughly cockeyed, idiotic state in the way these things are being handled under our legislation.
That is a cockeyed way of doing things.
I can only conclude that it was a pretty cockeyed judgment.
Is this not, after all, a cockeyed idea?
Surely, that is a cockeyed sense of values.
It is cockeyed when electricity is divorced from gas and electricity and gas are divorced from water.
