1
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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as in psychotic
having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind
I was accosted on the downtown street by a woman who seemed to be a bit screwy in the head
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Recent Examples of screwy
The facts surrounding Perry’s demise are screwy from the start, with each new revelation just adding to the whole dreadful unreal only-in-Hollywood-maybe tilt and swerve.
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Erik Hedegaard, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2024
Besides that behavior, the thread is full of all sorts of reports of Google's VPN program getting screwy with the Windows DNS settings.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
People who worked with psychedelics seem to have been especially adroit at projecting authoritative normality while conducting some very screwy and sometimes quite sinister business behind the scenes.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
In a screwy year like this, who knows what's going to happen?
—Mark Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
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Erik Hedegaard, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2024
Besides that behavior, the thread is full of all sorts of reports of Google's VPN program getting screwy with the Windows DNS settings.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
People who worked with psychedelics seem to have been especially adroit at projecting authoritative normality while conducting some very screwy and sometimes quite sinister business behind the scenes.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
In a screwy year like this, who knows what's going to happen?
—Mark Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for screwy
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While most players at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship are battling the Texas heat, slow play, and a demanding Fields Ranch East layout, Leona Maguire is dealing with something far more bizarre—tick bites!—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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And frankly that bizarre idea makes the PEN Charter incoherent too.—
Kamila Shamsie
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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The counselor also told police Trotman had had a previous psychotic break in which he was found wandering the woods.—
Peter Hermann,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2023
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Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.—
Thomas Saccente,
Arkansas Online,
17 Jan. 2023
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Sometimes your audio is all screwed up and echoing, there are weird pauses everywhere, and nothing interesting gets said.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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People talk about uncanny valley in terms of the look of these robots – there’s kind of a weird uncanny valley thing going on as well with AI artwork.—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
26 June 2025
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Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Mar. 2025
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The emu egg—a two pound, eight-inch ovoid with a sultry teal shell gently speckled in pale green—seemed like just the right absurdist final flourish for an already insane endeavor.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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The night before the baby junco landed in the research team’s net, a strange, shifting light filtered through the forest, not far from where the Long Trail, Vermont’s end-to-end hiking route, traverses the Mount Mansfield ridgeline.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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But one of the strangest well wishes came not from a person, but a 1,400-foot-tall building.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
27 June 2025
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But people who might be mad at the thought of gay prince are going to be mad regardless.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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On Sunday afternoon, in a mad scramble that took place fewer than 20 minutes before the first pitch at Dodger Stadium, the Giants and Posey astonished the baseball industry.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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McGrath's older brother and two of her younger sisters described her as funny, sarcastic, full of life and so caring that the homeless in her neighborhood greeted her by name.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Much like his character, Boyce is mild-mannered, kind and effortlessly funny.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With his shock of spiky hair and adrenaline rushes, Smith turns a corporate villain into a lunatic new-wave frontman.—
Charles McNultyTheater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2023
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The first personality is the lunatic, chaotic artist, with no limits.—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
8 Dec. 2022
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“Screwy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screwy. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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