screwy
Americanadjective
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crazy; nutty.
I think you're screwy, refusing an invitation to the governor's dinner.
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disconcertingly strange.
There's something screwy about his story.
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absurdly peculiar or impractical; ridiculous.
screwy ideas.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of 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
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
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
“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
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
Jonathan Demme directed the screwiest and most original movie of 1980, and deserves a better commercial fate than he has so far received.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ship landed almost on top of a colony of the screwiest bunch of things you ever saw.
From The Unprotected Species by Sturgis, Melvin
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