cockeyed

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The whole universe was crazy and cockeyed and extremely strange.
整个宇宙疯狂而荒唐，极其怪异。
In “Ponzi’s Scheme” (2005), Mitchell Zuckoff, a journalism professor at Boston University, regards his subject as a chronic dreamer with a cockeyed scheme that went awry.
波士顿大学新闻学教授米切尔·扎可奥夫在2005年出版了一本名为“庞氏骗局”的书。书中，他认为庞茨是一个积习难改的空想家，揣着一个荒唐并最终化为泡影的投资计划。
In August 2009, not even the most cockeyed optimists could have projected that within four months, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo would return $100 billion in borrowed funds to the taxpayers.
2009年8月，即使是最荒唐的乐观主义者也难以预计，美国银行、花旗集团、富国银行（Wells Fargo）能在4个月时间里，将1000亿美元借贷资金返还给纳税人。

The whole universe was crazy and cockeyed and extremely strange.
整个宇宙疯狂而荒唐，极其怪异。
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Specifically, the cockeyed policy that has, since late 2007, tilted the investing playing field toward short selling.
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That's so cockeyed because Vegas is the very vaccination against sports fixing.
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Not Here Next time the WTO comes to Seattle, I hope theres a loud demonstration by free-traders denouncing our cockeyed system of apparel quotas.
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(SLOPING) not straight, but sloping to one side
(STUPID) used to describe a plan or idea that is stupid, not suitable, or not likely to be successful
(DRUNK) having drunk too much alcohol

If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.
If something is cockeyed, it looks wrong because it is not in a level or straight position.