1
as in distorted
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
screwed up his face at the taste of the medicine
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as in cheated
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
managed to screw his siblings out of their share of the inheritance
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Recent Examples of screwed
Was Tony Kiritsis really screwed out of a legitimate business deal?
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
Basically, our government helped the rich get richer while working families got screwed.
—Ana María Archila, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
Were you all screwed by not having anyone in the turret to help protect you?
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
That doesn’t mean you’re screwed if your job is highly repetitive.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Jan. 2026
Bland policy proposals without a narrative explaining who is getting screwed and who is doing the screwing will not work.
—ABC News, 18 Jan. 2026
Got screwed when the referee missed an obvious blow to the head that gave the Pats a field goal.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
If Jay had said no, I would have been screwed.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Dec. 2025
For safety reasons, the battery box in a unicorn toy is hidden or screwed into place.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
Basically, our government helped the rich get richer while working families got screwed.
—Ana María Archila, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
Were you all screwed by not having anyone in the turret to help protect you?
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
That doesn’t mean you’re screwed if your job is highly repetitive.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Jan. 2026
Bland policy proposals without a narrative explaining who is getting screwed and who is doing the screwing will not work.
—ABC News, 18 Jan. 2026
Got screwed when the referee missed an obvious blow to the head that gave the Pats a field goal.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
If Jay had said no, I would have been screwed.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Dec. 2025
For safety reasons, the battery box in a unicorn toy is hidden or screwed into place.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screwed
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Zhiwei Zhang, president and chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management, said the data was distorted by the timing of the Lunar New Year, which falls in mid-February this year after taking place in January last year.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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The regulatory asymmetry distorted competition and made Verizon’s devices uniquely attractive to criminals.—
Roslyn Layton,
Boston Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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McMann hunted, but never cheated, for offence.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Experts say such scam operations in Cambodia and elsewhere have cheated people around the world out of billions of dollars and tricked people from many countries to work in them under slave-like conditions.—
Sakchai Lalit,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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American bases built inside the ice sheet, such as Camp Century, were quickly crushed as the encasing snow deformed.—
Paul Bierman,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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One of those difficulties was figuring out how to square the minimal and highly refined designs of Mies and Johnson with the raw and sometimes deformed materials salvaged from RedBird.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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In an ecosystem squeezed by the brutal economics of streaming and the continuing struggles of the theatrical model, far too many worthy films go unsold and unseen.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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Tens of billions of dollars in corporate loans are likely to default over the next year as companies, especially software and data services firms owned by private equity, get squeezed by the AI threat, Mish said in a Wednesday research note.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2026
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Now it’s finally tortured artist Benedict Bridgerton’s (Luke Thompson) turn.—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2026
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All of this makes the job of being an informed citizen just tortured.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
30 Jan. 2026
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His attacker, the man in black, was hustled off the stage.—
Anderson Cooper,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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As the lights came up, Taylor had already been hustled out, as had Arnaud.—
Eve Batey,
Vanity Fair,
7 Feb. 2026
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On Saturday, Atallah Abu Hadaiyed heard explosions in Gaza City during his morning prayers and ran outside to find his cousins lying on the ground as flames curled around them.—
Sam Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Chopped with face-framing curtain bangs and curled into small (almost Shirley Temple-sized) ringlets, the singer’s hair is clearly a reference to her look from the song’s energetic music video.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
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Over at Azur on Luminara, the menu reinvents itself every two days to mirror the port of call, like someone plucked the best taverna dishes off the coast and casually plated them in front of you.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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This is ideal for decades of sliding across the ice, because bigger mineral grains are more likely to get plucked out by the ice, leaving holes in the surface that could cause unpredictable behavior.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
10 Feb. 2026
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