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
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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
It’s difficult to conjure a more challenging and screwy labor market than that of wildland firefighting.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
Our driveway is crowded with cars parked at screwy angles in a hurried way.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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
But Stephanopoulos found common ground with Morris, slipping into the same role he played for Carville as an antidote to the resident genius' screwier ideas.
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
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
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
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
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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