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screwy

[skroo-ee] / ˈskru i /


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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

Finn Russell's screwy kicking performance, in which three potentially decisive conversion shots slipped by, won't escape unnoticed either.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2025

It’s difficult to conjure a more challenging and screwy labor market than that of wildland firefighting.

From Seattle Times Sep. 25, 2023

Our driveway is crowded with cars parked at screwy angles in a hurried way.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

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

All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them.

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

The screwiest thing Richard Williams did at the All England Club was to not show up for his daughters' showdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Number Three was the screwiest one of all, yet it made a weird kind of sense.

From The Penal Cluster by Randall Garrett




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