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Screwball   /skrˈubˌɔl/   Listen
Screwball

adjective
1.
Foolish; totally unsound.  Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, softheaded.  "Half-baked ideas" , "A screwball proposal without a prayer of working"






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"Screwball" Quotes from Famous Books



... the life of Riley, but somehow it wasn't enough in this place. We'd get about half-oiled and work up a promising argument about what was wrong with the world. Then, just when we'd got life looking its screwball funniest with our arguments one or the other of us would look out the window and see Joey Pond in his wheelchair, waiting for a one-eyed dog named Charlie to come trotting home across the palmetto flats. He was always there, day or night, ...
— To Remember Charlie By • Roger Dee



Words linked to "Screwball" :   impractical, geek, delivery, eccentric, eccentric person, flake, colloquialism, oddball, pitch



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