screwed

Example Sentences

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"Are you coming to the blue moon?" called the fay, and his voice whistled and shrewed to them like the voice of a wind.

From The Blue Moon by Housman, Laurence

She shrilled and shrewed her firm conviction that her son was a fool and worse because he had neither the consideration nor the silly sense of a fool’s solicitude for a hard-worked mother. 

From Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack

Jesse Smith was a slow, cool, shrewed gambler.

From The Border Legion by Grey, Zane

Well she shrewed me so abominably when she found out my lowly position that my pride was roused, and I told her she might go where she pleased.

From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)