screwy

Example Sentences

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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

But I needed New York — the weather, the danger of possibly getting mugged, working in the theater while waiting tables or working screwy jobs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 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

I dashed over to Roy Markham’s lab to spurt out the news and to receive further reassurance that Linus’ chemistry was screwy.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson