0 not straight, but sloping to one side -- 斜的，歪的
Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed. 把那边那幅画摆正一点好吗？——有点歪。
1 used to describe a plan or idea that is stupid, not suitable, or not likely to be successful -- （计划或主意）荒唐的，不合适的，不切实际的
The government has dreamed up some cockeyed scheme for getting unemployed youngsters back into work. 政府凭空想出某个荒谬的计划，想通过它让失业青年重新找到工作。
2 having drunk too much alcohol -- 酒醉的，喝醉酒的
Procedure on the matter has been rather cockeyed.
That seems to me to be a cockeyed way of doing things.
We have a changing situation and our present policy seems to me to be completely cockeyed.
The unions even refused to give evidence to the commission because they recognised that the terms of reference were cockeyed.
I am not complaining in any way, but it seemed to me that this arrangement was really cockeyed.
Let us for heaven's sake not get this thing cockeyed by putting the wrong label, or the right label in the wrong way, on it.
Another important point about land is that the system of valuation is cockeyed.
It is cockeyed when electricity is divorced from gas and electricity and gas are divorced from water.
