screwed up
Example Sentences
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The Flynns are screwed up but they don’t mean to be cruel; like Harper, they side with “other outcasts and outsiders.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
If that happens and Congress later says, Wait, we screwed up, start it up again—it’s too late, because the spacecraft is no longer able to be contacted.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
“That’s where they screwed up, they started subsidizing a lot of these guys clear back in the Dust Bowl,” Mike said of the biggest ranches.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
In other words: “We screwed up, but we can screw up better.”
From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025
“Yeah, and she’s really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don’t look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect.”
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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