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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are screwy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is strange, odd, or not functioning properly.
Example: "The instructions for assembling the furniture are screwy, making it difficult to put everything together."
Alternatives: "are bizarre" or "are messed up".
Dictionary
are screwy
adjective
Crazy; silly; ridiculous; insane; demented; unreasonable.
synonyms
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"When you go to Amazon they don't know if you bought a book for a friend, they don't know if you've read it, and so their recommendations are screwy.
That's either a huge, inexplicable jump for no reason, or the metrics are screwy.
He added that people on Wall Street are "screwy".
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Maybe this is screwy.
Election math is screwy.
But that could be screwy.
From up high, the perspective was screwy.
The landmarks are exact but the placement is screwy.
"The almanac has been screwy for three years now".
"If he was screwy you should have told me before he moved in," she said to Chaz's father.
"You could see that when you were trading a stock, the market knew what you were going to do, and it was going to move against you". But what Katsuyama described was a far more detailed picture of the market than Gitlin had ever considered — and in that market, all the incentives were screwy.
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