What's the difference between cockamamie and wacky?
Cockamamie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The apotheosis of the cockamamie logic surrounding the sale, is the idea that some of the City institutions set to make a killing may own our pensions.
(2) Most of the jokes about Trump’s cockamamie policies tried to dismiss them with a chuckle.
(3) They're so clearly under the influence of the fossil fuel industry that they're coming up with cockamamie solutions which aren't solutions.
(4) The waters are further muddied by this process, masquerading as balance, of giving time and a soapbox to every cockamamie statement any self-serving politician cares to make, then labelling the sum of these parts "the truth about immigration".
(5) I don’t share his politics on many things, but he was elected on that cockamamie system that they’ve got.
Wacky
Definition:
(n.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Father, rather creepily, joined him on his gap year and the two went surfing and enjoyed the wacky backy.
(2) Shaw, a veteran of the Falklands and Iraq wars, also said the MoD had to be prepared to embrace unconventional and "wacky" ideas if the military wanted to catch up with, and then stay ahead of, rivals in the cybersphere.
(3) "They don't have any out-and-out wacky contestants – the Jedwards and the Wagners – and I think they are key to the joy of the show," he said.
(4) As she prepares to launch her final bid to become America’s first female president, the question posed by her best friend booms out loud: why funny and wacky to those who love her, yet to others a self-aggrandizing shrew?
(5) In the wacky parallel universe where this suit succeeds and sets a precedent, lots of countries could have a case for "unrealistic portrayal": Mongolia National pride offended by perhaps the worst casting decision of all time, when John Wayne played Genghis Khan in The Conqueror .
(6) Schmidt's visit to Burma comes after trips to Libya, Afghanistan and North Korea, which he said was a "truly wacky place".
(7) Like someone's first time at Ascot, unsure of how wacky to go with their hat.
(8) The Globes can be notoriously wacky – this time round, in a good way.
(9) Then somebody pointed out a "slightly wacky" advertisement for a deputy head in Essex.
(10) Kevin Rudd has backed a 20% company tax rate for the Northern Territory – 10 percentage points lower than the rest of the country – as part of a northern economic plan very similar to a Coalition strategy labelled "wacky" and "crazy" by Labor ministers earlier in the year.
(11) Sadly, these hopes may also belong in a wacky parallel universe.
(12) Ballmer, whose wacky "monkey dance" and enthusiasm had once shown him to be a loose, fun manager, was not the man of vision that his predecessor, Bill Gates, was.
(13) That's just… That's not walk-off interference call levels of wackiness but damn close.
(14) We’re already fighting against constitutional “personhood” status for zygotes and attempts to defund a woman’s health organization thanks to the 3% it spends performing abortions, so perhaps the anti-choice movement has reached peak wacky.
(15) United States of America Though Hollywood is sometimes presumed by Iranian officials to be an instrument of the US government, there's no reason, in this wacky parallel universe, why it shouldn't sue itself.
(16) Allen does not, you'll be glad to hear, explain how to manoeuvre a Gillette razor effortlessly around that tricky bit near your jaw line, nor is she using her position to point out that all of your wacky ties need to be rolled into a ball and thrown in a lake.
(17) Oh, and speaking of wacky hi-jinks, lest we forget .
(18) There was clear anger among Tory high command at the latest intervention by the outspoken Mid Bedfordshire MP, with one senior source describing her comments as "completely wacky".
(19) Harry Redknapp's team showed their spirit and, in a wacky game of contrasting halves, they missed a penalty and nearly completed an outlandish comeback against a Fulham side that finished with 10 men after the harsh dismissal of Steve Sidwell.
(20) • How goes the government's wacky restriction on books being sent to prisoners?