screwy
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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
“One of the peculiarities of squares is their screwy propensity to glorify rogues and scoundrels.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
“We will see cases, but I think almost certainly – unless something really screwy happens – they’re going to lose a lot,” said Cameron Kistler, a legal counsel at the nonprofit group Protect Democracy.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
“George can tell you screwy things, and it don’t matter. It’s just the talking. It’s just bein’ with another guy.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
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 Marks, Winston K.
It had to cap the screwiest two weekends at Cal since the late 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2014
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
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
I eased my position slightly to relieve the pressure on my broken flipper and grinned at the pilot, Lucky Larson, the screwiest, most unpredictable void trotter who had ever flown for dear old Trans-Space.
From Larson's Luck by Vance, Gerald
