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was screwing
verb
To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
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He was screwing both his mother-in-law and his wife's sisters.
Enron was the very model of CSR; unfortunately, it was screwing its employees and investors at the same time.
"If I was screwing up interviews, I could take it, but I don't even get the interviews.
Mr. Sulkowski, the Nashville painter, drank wine and said he was screwing up his courage to make a speech.
Things cooled off while he was screwing in photo-flood bulbs, consulting color charts, and making time-exposures.
He was devastated that a legal matter was screwing him up, especially when he had, he felt, "strategized everything perfectly".
Similar(13)
Clearly, Shapiro was screwed.
I was screwed.
So yeah, I was screwed up".
"This is screwing it up," she said.
I'm screwing this up.
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