screwy
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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
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
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
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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