SCREWY Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

screwy

adjective

ˈskrü-ē

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 California’s vote-counting is notorious for taking weeks to get results, but that’s a function of screwy deadlines rather than the mail-in balloting itself. —

Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, the Big 12 remains as quirky and screwy as ever. —

Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 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 See All Example Sentences for screwy

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Adjective

Weird neighbors and increasingly bizarre diversions plague every attempt Nameless Hero makes to get down the stairs of his building to the man who’s standing outside.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 June 2026
And in a bizarre twist, a criminal investigation has been opened after three dogs were found dead at the travel trailer where mauling victim Jodi Cowan was living at the time of the fatal attack.

— Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026