screwy – English adjective declension

Adjective: screwy

Comparative	screwier
Superlative	screwiest

Comparative	more screwy
Superlative	most screwy

That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!
Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors? [1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 13, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 118:]
Now, you don't actually have to have another printer in order to add another printer. This might sound a bit screwy on my part, but it is true. [2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 155:]
"A tipsy man," said Spearman, "is generally noisy ; and I confess I was screwy on Wednesday." [1868, Memorials of a theological college., London: Houlston & Wright, page 9:]
Screwy [skroo'i], adj. mean ; stingy ; parsimonious. Alto, slightly intoxicated. [[1877, Edward Peacock, A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, London: Trubner & Co., page 120, English Dialect Society:]
I saw my hearty out of the yard, with his pink peeping out of his Macintosh, on his screwy old black horse, and I heard from my fair waiter that he had been vaunting that he would lick us all into fits. [1840 March 26, Hal of the West, “Brilliant run with the Puckeridge hounds”, in The Sporting Magazine, volume XX, number 119, page 383:]

From screw + -y. 1820, original meaning “tipsy, slightly drunk”; meaning “crazy, ridiculous” first recorded 1887.

English adjective forms of screwy