screwy
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A murder mystery worms into the script that’s too screwy to be taken seriously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Although they profess to be in this screwy loyalty gauntlet for similar reasons, not everyone’s impetus is the same.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
It’s difficult to conjure a more challenging and screwy labor market than that of wildland firefighting.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
Turtle could have called on Angela to testify to that, but she didn't want her screwy sister confessing all over the place.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
But Bell is actually too convincing at playing a damaged woman saddled with dialogue that's only slightly screwier than what we'd encounter in a Lifetime movie script.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2022
But Bell is actually too convincing at playing a damaged woman saddled with dialogue that’s only slightly screwier than what we’d encounter in a Lifetime movie.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2022
And on the federal level, where every individual estate has an exemption this year of $5.34 million, the math for New York residents gets screwier still.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2014
But Stephanopoulos found common ground with Morris, slipping into the same role he played for Carville as an antidote to the resident genius' screwier ideas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, I suppose good plays have been written for screwier reasons, and I was in no mood to look a gift-author in the mouth.
From The Mind Digger by Winston K. Marks
It had to cap the screwiest two weekends at Cal since the late 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2014
The case was the screwiest yet aired by the CBS Court of Missing Heirs, which on a coast-to-coast hookup has unearthed claimants to over $400,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
In any view, two of the screwiest living artists are Painter Salvador Dali and Actor Harpo Marx.
From Time Magazine Archive
For two years this almost anonymous corporation has pushed doughnut sales with one of the screwiest publicity campaigns in advertising history.
From Time Magazine Archive
I take that last back, he has reasons all right—some of the screwiest.
From Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds
