cockeyed

For that bit of cockeyed optimism, NASA has history on its side.

He has the shiny vinyl good looks of a Ken doll and, when he wants to turn it on, a slightly vapid demeanor that comes off as cockeyed confidence.

He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.

Except on the one subject of that cockeyed invention of his, he behaved perfectly normally.

Another wild goose chase, but somewhere along this cockeyed row there was an angle.

I fumbled around for a beginning, and then I decided to start right at the beginning, whether it sounded cockeyed or not.

After only two weeks on the job, on a strange planet ninety light-years from home, you don't tell your boss he's cockeyed.

Sure, and maybe that was a very cockeyed view for Dawson to take, too.