Adjective : full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas. From Dictionary.com.
FITZWATER: Well, the "cockamamy" part of the idea that a President is going to be so intimidated by the press or wilt under the pressure and walk out of the Presidency, or something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Call the Briefing! Bush & Reagan, Sam & Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press] Reference
"Come on now, Peter, please don't try to flatter me with some kind of cockamamy line about love at first sight," she said, giving him a look that told him she wouldn't begin to believe it if he tried. From Wordnik.com. [From This Beloved Hour]
Plz oh plz oh plz show me the poll that backs up this cockamamy assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Slips Against McCain, Now Losing Among Independents] Reference
'Even if I agreed to go along with this cockamamy scheme, what about nights?. From Wordnik.com. [One False Move]
Whenever someone comes up with such a cockamamy name -- you are just plain stuck. From Wordnik.com. [Can I change my User Name?] Reference
Now many will quickly ask what rational person would believe such a cockamamy story?. From Wordnik.com. [Thug-o-phobia] Reference
So now he looked somehow less of a man because he refused to fight her cockamamy wars. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Symmetry] Reference
"We have more important things to do than to entertain the cockamamy conjecture of the uneducated.". From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
And in the end they picked me up on the street for some cockamamy charge and held me, just for an hour, nothing very terrible. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2001] Reference
Wilkes Booth, many historians kind of talk about this kind of cockamamy rogue group that he has, which is almost kind of pitiful. From Wordnik.com. [April 1865: The Month That Saved America] Reference
For example, Obama extend invitations to the GOP which then goes and shoots itself in the collective foot with cockamamy rejections. From Wordnik.com. [George Spyros: Obama's Modus Operandi: NYT Coverage of Coen Brothers Clean Coal Ad] Reference
"I'm afraid that the next cockamamy theory the sheriff will offer is that you killed the colonel because you were trying to protect Hunt for some reason.". From Wordnik.com. [A Man Of Honour]
Some cockamamy new voting system with hidden backdoors gets put through the testing labs, and just as he has over and over before, Brit Williams misses the problems entirely. From Wordnik.com. [At Least Do No Harm] Reference
FRIEDMAN: We would be much better off, Howie, in terms of the message campaign buying ads on Al Jazeera than the money we're spending on all these cockamamy radio shows and TV shows. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2005] Reference
"She's coming up with some cockamamy story that she was kidnapped, when we all know it's false.". From Wordnik.com. [NBC Miami - Top Stories] Reference
Only the threat of having to return to Dunder Mifflin (Sa-bre?) would inspire such a cockamamy scheme. From Wordnik.com. [TVGuide.com: Breaking News] Reference
They're fun for about two minutes, then you realize that companies file patents for every cockamamy idea that R&D devises. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
There may be something to this cockamamy notion of elitism in general, but those who eschew her selection do so not necessarily by a sense of elitism. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest on Air America] Reference
Clinton-era levels, mocking Obama's "new cockamamy ideas" and insisting the President "not raise taxes and take away the return on an investment" And as. From Wordnik.com. [Crooks and Liars] Reference
While our soldiers waited for him to make a decision, he found it more important to keep pushing his cockamamy healthcare bill as his number one priority. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
Especially when it turns out that the people they have been citing for years to defend their cockamamy positions are hacks, or are being exposed as hacks. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Counting the eclipse of Freud and his more cockamamy ideas as a very positive development, I want to make it clear that I'd never advocate a return to that mythology. From Wordnik.com. [feminist blogs] Reference
Or is it part of some cockamamy story dreamed up by the ISA? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of Rama]
When you deliver the pitch, at least -- like a cockamamy scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference
This is all about you, and some cockamamy idea you™ve got about who I am.”. From Wordnik.com. [Run For The Money]
I just hope it isn’t another cockamamy scheme to sink more money into Spooking. From Wordnik.com. [Unearthly Asylum] Reference
Law Review in 1981 that suggested the cockamamy idea of taxing kid’s income at their parents’ rates. From Wordnik.com. [TaxProf Blog:] Reference
And you gave us that cockamamy story, so we wouldn’t suspect that you’d been in there right before we were. From Wordnik.com. [Confession] Reference
Ha, does that mean that VC’s with higher failure rates are more likely to invest in any cockamamy business plan you put together?. From Wordnik.com. [VCs: What’s Your Failure Rate?] Reference
Geof, if we weren’t both so tired, we wouldn’t be coming up with these cockamamy theories about why he called me instead of you. From Wordnik.com. [Confession] Reference
I never heard of such a damned cockamamy thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
"By our last season, we were creatively exhausted and pulling cockamamy story ideas out of thin air-'Hey, how about Worf's forgotten brother? '. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Who thought of this cockamamy scheme?". From Wordnik.com. [Capitol]
What kind of a cockamamy scheme is that?. From Wordnik.com. [The Strata-Sphere] Reference
What a cockamamy idea! ". From Wordnik.com. [Call the Briefing! Bush & Reagan, Sam & Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press] Reference
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