How to Use screwy in a Sentence

screwy

adjective
  • I knew something was screwy.
  • In a screwy year like this, who knows what's going to happen?
    — Mark Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • State tax revenues are bound to decline in this screwy economy.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Pricing for five or fewer devices is a little screwy.
    — PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Things have gotten so screwy, censuring has become a coat of honor.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Then again, my mother-in-law still vacations with my husband’s ex, so maybe my boundaries are all screwy.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • People complain about opera productions — screwy stagings — but no one ever does anything about it.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 July 2023
  • And each episode managed, in a beautifully screwy, true-hard-laugh way, to capture something painfully real.
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To Tawada — the acclaimed author of tender, screwy parables about outsiderdom — we are clad in language.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But the Rockets fully understand the screwy logic of the present-day NBA.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 15 Mar. 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
  • Yu Darvish's deal is just the latest example of how screwy MLB's current econimics are.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • There's something decidedly screwy about Adele, and Louise comes to realize that there are supernatural forces at work.
    — Danny Horn, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Praise to musical supervisor T-Bone Burnett for the screwy selections in this big laugher.
    — Duane Bygre, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For seasoned venture capitalists and private equity firms, tech mania means a flood of dumb money is creating screwy valuations and power-mad founders.
    — Erin Griffith, Fortune, 19 July 2017
  • 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
  • What’s more, the screwy structure of succession in this realm essentially guarantees murderous tensions within the royal family.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The second puzzling observation involves the screwy distribution of dark matter within smaller galaxies.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • His brilliant comedy mind was, by turns, smart, silly, surreal, slapsticky, sarcastic, saucy, sly, satirical, screwy and subversive — all, of course, served up with generous portions of Spam.
    — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Daniels and Chase brought more oomph to their characters’ romantic entanglement, which has left Lady Larken happily if inconveniently with child, a springboard for the whole screwy marital plot.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024

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