Synonyms for screwy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : skroo-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈskru i |
Top 10 synonyms for screwy Other synonyms for the word screwy
Définition of screwy
Origin :- 1820, "tipsy, slightly drunk," from screw (n.) + -y (2.). Sense of "crazy, ridiculous" first recorded 1887. Related: Screwily; screwiness.
- adj eccentric
- I had to move around into about sixteen screwy positions to do all the fixing.
- Extract from : « The Trouble with Telstar » by John Berryman
- They seemed to come in series of threes in this screwy place, he thought.
- Extract from : « Castle of Terror » by E.J. Liston
- For some screwy reason I hoped she had another place to hole up for the night.
- Extract from : « Modus Vivendi » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- My sponsor and I had some pretty good sessions about it, and some of the screwy results I wrote you begin to make sense.
- Extract from : « On Handling the Data » by M. I. Mayfield
- That'll make everyone skew all weird and screwy, and make everyone look guilty.
- Extract from : « Little Brother » by Cory Doctorow
- Maybe it's because at times (though certainly not—I hope—on as permanent a basis as Artie) I'm as screwy as he is.
- Extract from : « Double or Nothing » by Jack Sharkey
- Because every screwy thing that has happened since we came here a year ago must have an explanation.
- Extract from : « The Minus Woman » by Russell Robert Winterbotham
- This time they ain't none of them screwy Venusians to put the whammy on him, and he's doing okay.
- Extract from : « Hoiman and the Solar Circuit » by Gordon Dewey
- Something in us was different, unrelated; I don't doubt that Tweel thought me just as screwy as I thought him.
- Extract from : « A Martian Odyssey » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
- Then when the boys in Havana answered that screwy letter perhaps they'd all have something to go by.
- Extract from : « The Five Arrows » by Allan Chase
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