How to Use screwy in a Sentence

screwy

adjective
Definition of screwynext
Synonyms for screwynext
  • I knew something was screwy.
  • There were all sorts of screwy codes for different jobs.
    — Whitney Tower, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2014
  • The story of why it’s taken more than 70 years to ID Hitler’s teeth is as screwy as the Fuhrer’s teeth, themselves.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
  • But the Rockets fully understand the screwy logic of the present-day NBA.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Nothing would be more screwy than these two hooking up.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Speaking of four notes: The first four of the Twilight Zone theme — those screwy, dizzying intervals — are lodged in our brains.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Apr. 2021
  • And yet even before your very first sip, there’s one screwy bit of physics that’s hard to deny: the bubbles in your glass of stout appear to be sinking.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Apr. 2018
  • State tax revenues are bound to decline in this screwy economy.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Most of us only really notice when our bills get screwy.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • This study concentrated not on the post-Covid period, which is screwy in all sorts of ways that are now receding, but on the past decade.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
  • Even if the concept seems screwy, someone is definitely watching this show, which has remained in the top 10 for quite a while at this point.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 July 2022
  • Things have gotten so screwy, censuring has become a coat of honor.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Yu Darvish's deal is just the latest example of how screwy MLB's current econimics are.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Third, there seems to be some screwy, non-GAAP accounting going on inside the walls of this highly unprofitable business.
    — Aubrie Pagano, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Because even this year, the Oscars will be a holiday celebrating the real Oz, the most creative, vibrant and screwy little town in all the world.
    — Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • To Tawada — the acclaimed author of tender, screwy parables about outsiderdom — we are clad in language.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • And each episode managed, in a beautifully screwy, true-hard-laugh way, to capture something painfully real.
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • As Stein's Marcus works through the complications posed by Saffert's screwy suspects, there's never a dull moment.
    — Richard Wattenberg, OregonLive.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Turning this screwy temple of madness into an elegant abode for her clients—a family of six—was going to be a heavy lift, but Loew was prepared.
    — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 29 Apr. 2020
  • In recent years, people on the right have had some screwy ideas of manliness, equating it with belligerence and vulgarity.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Living in our make-a-quick-buck society generates some pretty screwy ideas, but … a league for rock-paper-scissors players?
    — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2006
  • Marissa Cooper, the beautiful and damaged daughter of a screwy, wealthy family on The O.C., was always something of a tragic figure.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 May 2021
  • What is screwy is Christmas is a pretty important holiday.
    — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Praise to musical supervisor T-Bone Burnett for the screwy selections in this big laugher.
    — Duane Bygre, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Tom Arnold is a comic delight as Harry's screwy sidekick while Tia Carrere is perfectly cast as the exotic femme fatale.
    — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
  • This Danish-language film about a Copenhagen commune in the mid-1970s pulses with screwy energy and antic confusion.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 18 May 2017
  • In fact, just like all of the Facebook weirdness and hacked webcams in The Changeling, the rare book trade is just another piece of evidence that anything involving human beings is going to be screwy and not entirely on the level.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2017
  • A parallel universe has been created as a new source of energy for our depleted world, but something screwy has happened and Will must hop over there to assess the situation.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 15 June 2017
  • It’s a planning fallacy based on screwy positive self-perception.
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 24 Nov. 2020
  • This is typical of the Haims’ screwy charm, which is obvious in their hyper, jokey interviews and stage performances, and in the group’s backstory of having learned to perform doing covers with their parents in a family group called Rockinhaim.
    — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 10 July 2017

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