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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for screwy 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screwy
Adjective
  • Does that explain his bizarre excursion to allow Arnaut Danjuma to score?
    Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Archaeologists have uncovered a series of bizarre ancient burials in France.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Lewis prescribed Price anti-psychotic medication after a mental health referral Sept. 1.
    Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • There’s this weird gray zone between a cult and a company, or any system of power, especially one where there is sort of a charismatic personality at the top of it like Kier Eagan.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
  • First, read the BAIT: a weird and wonderful pick from any time in film.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Your voice is insane.
    Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Republican and right-wing reaction is just insane.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • The Chiefs have been here five times in the past six years so they’re used to the strange questions and odd requests that have become far too common on opening night.
    Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Scientists have detected something strange in Earth’s magnetosphere, some 100,000 miles away from the ground.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Alternatively, Danielle is mad at Boston Rob, crying about voting out Bob the Drag Queen, and trying to get out my queen Carolyn.
    Ana Osorno, Them, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The project stars Oscar Isaac as the titular mad scientist and Jacob Elordi as his monstrous creation, and also features Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The sweet, funny, profound ceremony in Oakland on Saturday could have doubled as a celebration of life for A’s baseball here, as the team migrates to Sacramento this season with its sights set on Las Vegas.
    Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025
  • April is funny and self-deprecating, seemingly comfortable in her skin despite the constant questioning of her gender.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 12 Feb. 2025.

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