screwing up

Then America would be a great country, but we keep screwing up.

It was a fiasco, but were some of the players screwing up on purpose?

In other words, I was stressed out during the day and it was screwing up my sleep at night.

After a week passed in which Lohan ignores Johnson, the star confessed to “screwing up” and falling off the wagon.

But in a vast federal government, someone somewhere is invariably screwing up.

She had suddenly caught sight of the old housekeeper making signs to her, and screwing up her face in a most mysterious way!

Finally, by screwing up the brake, the current through the dynamo is increased, and the lamp again short-circuited.

"And bring them back again with you," he whispered, screwing up his eyes into a shrewd grimace.

Screwing up my courage, without more ado I started off as quickly as I could, to look for the place Guillaume had started from.

They are held in place by set bolts and jam nuts, and are tightened by simply screwing up the nuts.