screwball
Example Sentences
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They’re not quite an odd couple — more like adjacent screwballs.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025
The show proceeds as a deliberate pastiche, dense with references to movies ranging from thirties screwballs to the work of David Lynch.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2019
Though no records exist to confirm it, Valenzuela probably threw more screwballs that day than most ballparks have seen in the past decade.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2014
But the heat in those screwballs remains underrated.
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2014
Meanwhile, we've got to decide what to do about the rest of those screwballs.
From Suite Mentale by Emshwiller, Ed
