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screwy

[skroo-ee] / ˈskru i /


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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

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

It’s difficult to conjure a more challenging and screwy labor market than that of wildland firefighting.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

“George can tell you screwy things, and it don’t matter. It’s just the talking. It’s just bein’ with another guy.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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

I take that last back, he has reasons all right—some of the screwiest.

From Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds




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