gone haywire

Synonyms

wonky knackered kaput unserviceable malfunctioning out of whack jiggered offline

Antonyms

working operating running functional intact viable
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Examples

Disgusting as he usually was, on rare occasions he showed flashes of stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard. Hunter S. Thompson

My gaydar has gone haywire. Bill Allred

No doubt the media should provide some entertainment also to the people, but if 90% of its coverage is devoted to entertainment, and only 10% to all the socio-economic issues put together, then the sense of priorities of the media has gone haywire. Markandey Katju

Words in the phrase

gone haywire

Close letter words and terms

gone for ever gone for good gone glutton gone hippie gone in a heartbeat gone in flash