haywire
adjective
informal uk
/ˈheɪ.waɪər/ us
/ˈheɪ.waɪr/ go haywire
The television's gone haywire.
Meaning of haywire in English
(Definition of haywire from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of haywire
haywire
The project makes the case for sophisticated planning in place of 'an opaque system of decentralisation that looks more like cell division gone haywire'.
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Leslie responds that experiences in lawless, haywire worlds are among the many experiences not worth having.
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If there are infinitely many divine minds, there will be many divine minds thinking of worlds that are just like ours up till now, but which then subsequently go haywire.
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If we based our system of public finance on this kind of principle, the thing would go haywire.
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In the years immediately after the war it did fairly well, until the planners went haywire in 1947.
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The timetable has gone completely haywire and very little is happening as a consequence.
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We have nationalised industries, in which commercial economics seem to have gone haywire.
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The market economy goes haywire and shows up the false situation which exists when there is a monopoly and any price can be demanded.
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If a large number have mislaid them, the theoretical view of the probable time the operation will take will go completely haywire.
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It seems to me that the figures have gone completely haywire.
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Frequent use will disrupt the normal pattern of periods and there is nothing women hate more than periods that have gone haywire.
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Yet we all know that the present system of local government finance was and is haywire.
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They are pretty haywire and could be amalgamated much more satisfactorily.
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But by the time we got to the 1970s everything seemed to go haywire, with a political agenda and some very different recruits.
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He is having to change his policies because our trade has gone haywire.
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détraqué…
kontroldan çıkmış, sapıtmış…
losgeslagen, gek geworden…
rozbitý, pomatený…
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