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