Sentence examples for screwy from inspiring English sources

The apparent trend had many economic writers speculating that the depth of the weakness each of the past three mid-years might be down to something screwy in the seasonal-adjustment factor, perhaps introduced by the turmoil of the Great Recession.

But the over-all sound balance in "The Dark Knight Rises" is so screwy that everyone's dialogue, not just Bane's, is forever being swallowed by ambient noise, and I began to wonder if we were even meant to follow the labyrinth of the plot.

Also, I was very influenced by Lincoln Kirstein's writing on Balanchine's work, by his screwy Gurdjieffian take on it.

He plays exuberantly with synonyms ("He's dotty!" they cried. "He's barmy!" "He's batty!" "He's nutty!" "He's screwy!" "He's wacky!").

Do you crave some of that tension, Kaufman style, between the actual and the theatrical, but without the screwy stuff?

Flessel remembers Cole with great affection as an acute, thoughtful, and gentle guy, a "pussycat," with a screwy smile and an irrepressible streak of humor.

"If he was screwy you should have told me before he moved in," she said to Chaz's father.

Recently, when I asked him about the show, Jim mentioned John's "screwy idea that he's backing up the people in Denmark who published those cartoons, but I think he did it because he could.

Soloway's world is aggressively specific: Jewy, screwy, L.A., upper middle class, not so much queer-friendly as queer-saturated.

Clay was a… For years now, we have been hearing from cops and bartenders that the full moon brings a vast increase in screwy conduct-from merely eccentric behavior….

And I ask forgiveness" — and it seems fair to say that, when your mom writes the bitter memoir, something really has gone screwy in your emotional life.