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screwy

[skroo-ee] / ˈskru i /


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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

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

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

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

Buck Weaver's screwiest activities are occasional booklets he prints at his own expense.

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

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 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 Gerald Vance


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