screwball

Example Sentences

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In “Trouble,” she buzzes with nervous energy, her dizzying delivery of Raphaelson’s smart dialogue creating the template for the screwball heroines soon to follow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Hollywood thrived in this tough decade partly by catering to people’s need for fantasy and escapism, through screwball comedies, adventure stories and the elaborate musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

That’s priceless in a screwball murder movie in which everyone’s soul is for sale.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Scratch just beneath the film’s screwball surface and its beating heart as a food movie quickly reveals itself.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025

“No, and neither does a screwball like you,” George said, looking at the watering eye behind the monocle and the moistness at the mouth of the beard.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole