as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
the counterfeit bills are poorly done and would look screwy to even the untrained eye
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Recent Examples of screwy
In Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut tweaks this trope to fit his signature, screwy black comedy.
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M. L. Rio,
The Atlantic,
19 Nov. 2025
Pricing for five or fewer devices is a little screwy.
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PC Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
In the screwy arithmetic of my mind, more time meant more aspiration.
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Dan Leach
july 3,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
And higher in the atmosphere things can be even screwier—and on a larger scale.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for screwy
M. L. Rio,
The Atlantic,
19 Nov. 2025
Pricing for five or fewer devices is a little screwy.
—
PC Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
In the screwy arithmetic of my mind, more time meant more aspiration.
—
Dan Leach
july 3,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
And higher in the atmosphere things can be even screwier—and on a larger scale.
—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for screwy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screwy
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When Aaron Paul’s Jeff attempts to make a suspicious deposit, the bank teller (a game Nina Dobrev) demands to be in on the deal, in the sort of neo-noir twist that could suggest a rich film world populated with bizarre freaks of all stripes.
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In the canon of DC Comics, Comet is truly a bizarre character.
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So, that was kind of quite weird.
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But storefronts across the city have long been weird hodgepodges, rife with misspellings and aesthetic incoherence.
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Informal Beyblade battles are popping up in strangest of places, with players huddling in parks, gyms and shopping malls.
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The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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Watching improv is reliably funny because performers work without a script.
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But figuring out how to do all that while being funny at the same time?
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Food also figured into other odd roadway incidents.
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Maternal Instinct lays out how Parker moved from a web of odd, though ultimately harmless lies about the fake pregnancy to killing her pregnant friend (Simmons-Hancock), and abducting her unborn fetus to present to her then-boyfriend, Wade Griffin, as their own.
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After cycling through erratic gigs—bus driver, garbage collector, violin maker—his carpentry skills landed him a job on an expedition vessel in Antarctica from 2006 to 2010.
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His social media posts became increasingly erratic.
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His perception of the situation in Germany is, to say the least, peculiar.
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The Oscar-winning actor playing Zorro is Jean Dujardin, whose run of awards accolades for The Artist remains one of those peculiar head-scratchers.
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The film, released as an accompaniment to the band’s 2017 album, Spirit, is a curious reminder of the path music takes after it’s released into the world.
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To my father, wellness was not a goal to be optimized, but rather something that came naturally with a curious, family-oriented, and altruistic existence.
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“Screwy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screwy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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