Definition of screwed-up in English:

screwed-up

adjective

1informal (of a person) emotionally disturbed; neurotic.
the screwed-up children of wealthy parents
Example sentencesExamples
- The 1984 hit is a story about two completely screwed-up people in the Bronx, each trying to turn the other into his or her salvation.
- I got on well with him but he was just a really screwed-up person.
- I'm still an insane, screwed-up, depressed teenager, and I personally don't think that writing letters to myself will change that.
- Maybe I'm just so screwed-up and flawed that nothing would make me happy.
- Of course I was shocked about what you did, but you were a screwed-up kid.
- Her breakdown plays like a story your friend told you about some screwed-up friend of a friend, ridiculous but local enough that you can't help but buy in.
- This is not what the Orioles should be: a repository for screwed-up superstars whose former teams will do anything to dump them.
- He affirmed that all we have on this planet are conflicted, screwed-up people, so he has the right to be screwed up too.
- ‘She's head of the PTA, but she's also probably the most screwed-up and loneliest person here,’ he says.
- Waiting for due process of the legitimate legal system seems a small price to pay to save even one screwed-up teenager.
- Speaking of screwed-up families, what's going on with Tristan?
- They are not schools in the traditional sense, but holding pens for very troubled, screwed-up kids, and several of these schools are located outside the United States.
- Holloway is a totally screwed-up British bobby on the run with a sack full of money.
- She was, essentially, the most screwed-up person he had ever met.
- The children of such persons would be screwed-up and not know right from wrong.
- How surprising would it be if Harry was a bit bloody angry inside and more than a little screwed-up?
- Most people want their showbiz heroes and heroines to be screwed-up, unpredictable and prone to artistic tantrums, don't they?
- The real punishment is having to sit in prison and watch a TV movie about what a screwed-up freak you are.
- The film explores members of a strikingly dysfunctional family dominated by three siblings once hailed as child geniuses, but now recognizable as deeply screwed-up adults.
- He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary.
1. 1.1 (of an event or a situation) spoiled by being badly managed or carried out.
  that was the most screwed-up audition
  Example sentencesExamples
  She herself had put forward the option that made his whole screwed-up situation so much easier.
  He's finally realized what's happened, that what's happening to him isn't some screwed-up act of fate.
  Depicting childhood (even an impoverished and screwed-up childhood) in the same palette used for trench warfare doesn't work.
  So it goes through screwed-up adventure after screwed-up adventure, all leading up to this!
  He seems determined to be running with the hares and hunting with the hounds, never acknowledging that he himself had a significant role in what is yet another badly screwed-up UN endeavour.
  Belfast is easily the most crazed, screwed-up city you'll ever come across.
  At every level, they have discovered or rediscovered that dropping an active duty force into a screwed-up situation unscrews it pretty fast.
  I didn't have the screwed-up childhood or soul-wrenching angst or any other useful twisted motivation for soloing.
  We are surviving through this really screwed-up time in the music business.
  He starts going back in time to fix things and coming back to ever more screwed-up present-day circumstances.
  His fictional forays into the lives of women suggest that the church dooms its female parishioners to screwed-up relationships with men.
2British (of paper or fabric) crumpled or crushed into a ball.
a screwed-up paper bag
Example sentencesExamples
- I was about to throw a piece of screwed-up paper into the yellow jug which serves as waste-paper basket.
- Inside it, there are a dozen or more screwed-up tissues, crumpled notes and general chaos.
- He is trailing behind him a large plastic bag full of rubbish - some screwed-up newspapers, an empty Reddy-Brek box - that he carries everywhere.
- Insulate non-frost proof containers with bubble wrap or ‘duvets’ made from bin liners stuffed with screwed-up newspaper.
- From his jacket pocket he pulls a fistful of screwed-up scraps of paper - a bus ticket, a cappuccino receipt, a 1997 pledge card, a picture of Gordon Brown, and more.
- Children in ragged clothes made the most of the daylight hours, playing football with screwed-up balls of cloth and grass just beyond the bus station.
1. 2.1 (of a person's face or eyes) crumpled, especially because of worry or effort.
  everyone looks ugly with red-rimmed eyes and a screwed-up face
  Example sentencesExamples
  I saw the faces of my children flashing on the back of my screwed-up eyes and I wished I didn't.
  She was sobbing her heart out, complete with the screwed-up expression, blood-infused face, and tears dripping down in a continual stream.
  ‘Your grandfather's eyes, your grandmother's mouth,’ an aunt said one Christmas, breathing into my screwed-up face.
  They appear to be confused, staring down death and disaster with screwed-up faces.
  What struck me most, however, given my day of finger-pointing, screwed-up faces and unreceptive ears, was how the speaker came to explain Pollock's work in the simplest of terms.

Definition of screwed-up in US English:

screwed-up

adjectiveˌskrudˈəpˌskro͞odˈəp

informal

1(of a person) emotionally disturbed; neurotic.
the screwed-up children of wealthy parents
Example sentencesExamples
- Waiting for due process of the legitimate legal system seems a small price to pay to save even one screwed-up teenager.
- I'm still an insane, screwed-up, depressed teenager, and I personally don't think that writing letters to myself will change that.
- The real punishment is having to sit in prison and watch a TV movie about what a screwed-up freak you are.
- Her breakdown plays like a story your friend told you about some screwed-up friend of a friend, ridiculous but local enough that you can't help but buy in.
- He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary.
- Holloway is a totally screwed-up British bobby on the run with a sack full of money.
- This is not what the Orioles should be: a repository for screwed-up superstars whose former teams will do anything to dump them.
- Speaking of screwed-up families, what's going on with Tristan?
- ‘She's head of the PTA, but she's also probably the most screwed-up and loneliest person here,’ he says.
- He affirmed that all we have on this planet are conflicted, screwed-up people, so he has the right to be screwed up too.
- The film explores members of a strikingly dysfunctional family dominated by three siblings once hailed as child geniuses, but now recognizable as deeply screwed-up adults.
- The children of such persons would be screwed-up and not know right from wrong.
- How surprising would it be if Harry was a bit bloody angry inside and more than a little screwed-up?
- Of course I was shocked about what you did, but you were a screwed-up kid.
- Most people want their showbiz heroes and heroines to be screwed-up, unpredictable and prone to artistic tantrums, don't they?
- They are not schools in the traditional sense, but holding pens for very troubled, screwed-up kids, and several of these schools are located outside the United States.
- The 1984 hit is a story about two completely screwed-up people in the Bronx, each trying to turn the other into his or her salvation.
- Maybe I'm just so screwed-up and flawed that nothing would make me happy.
- I got on well with him but he was just a really screwed-up person.
- She was, essentially, the most screwed-up person he had ever met.
1. 1.1 (of an event or a situation) spoiled by being badly managed or carried out.
  that was the most screwed-up audition
  Example sentencesExamples
  I didn't have the screwed-up childhood or soul-wrenching angst or any other useful twisted motivation for soloing.
  Belfast is easily the most crazed, screwed-up city you'll ever come across.
  He's finally realized what's happened, that what's happening to him isn't some screwed-up act of fate.
  So it goes through screwed-up adventure after screwed-up adventure, all leading up to this!
  At every level, they have discovered or rediscovered that dropping an active duty force into a screwed-up situation unscrews it pretty fast.
  She herself had put forward the option that made his whole screwed-up situation so much easier.
  He starts going back in time to fix things and coming back to ever more screwed-up present-day circumstances.
  His fictional forays into the lives of women suggest that the church dooms its female parishioners to screwed-up relationships with men.
  We are surviving through this really screwed-up time in the music business.
  He seems determined to be running with the hares and hunting with the hounds, never acknowledging that he himself had a significant role in what is yet another badly screwed-up UN endeavour.
  Depicting childhood (even an impoverished and screwed-up childhood) in the same palette used for trench warfare doesn't work.

单词	screwed-up
释义	Definition of screwed-up in English: screwed-up adjective 1informal (of a person) emotionally disturbed; neurotic. the screwed-up children of wealthy parents Example sentencesExamples The 1984 hit is a story about two completely screwed-up people in the Bronx, each trying to turn the other into his or her salvation. I got on well with him but he was just a really screwed-up person. I'm still an insane, screwed-up, depressed teenager, and I personally don't think that writing letters to myself will change that. Maybe I'm just so screwed-up and flawed that nothing would make me happy. Of course I was shocked about what you did, but you were a screwed-up kid. Her breakdown plays like a story your friend told you about some screwed-up friend of a friend, ridiculous but local enough that you can't help but buy in. This is not what the Orioles should be: a repository for screwed-up superstars whose former teams will do anything to dump them. He affirmed that all we have on this planet are conflicted, screwed-up people, so he has the right to be screwed up too. ‘She's head of the PTA, but she's also probably the most screwed-up and loneliest person here,’ he says. Waiting for due process of the legitimate legal system seems a small price to pay to save even one screwed-up teenager. Speaking of screwed-up families, what's going on with Tristan? They are not schools in the traditional sense, but holding pens for very troubled, screwed-up kids, and several of these schools are located outside the United States. Holloway is a totally screwed-up British bobby on the run with a sack full of money. She was, essentially, the most screwed-up person he had ever met. The children of such persons would be screwed-up and not know right from wrong. How surprising would it be if Harry was a bit bloody angry inside and more than a little screwed-up? Most people want their showbiz heroes and heroines to be screwed-up, unpredictable and prone to artistic tantrums, don't they? The real punishment is having to sit in prison and watch a TV movie about what a screwed-up freak you are. The film explores members of a strikingly dysfunctional family dominated by three siblings once hailed as child geniuses, but now recognizable as deeply screwed-up adults. He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary. 1.1 (of an event or a situation) spoiled by being badly managed or carried out. that was the most screwed-up audition Example sentencesExamples She herself had put forward the option that made his whole screwed-up situation so much easier. He's finally realized what's happened, that what's happening to him isn't some screwed-up act of fate. Depicting childhood (even an impoverished and screwed-up childhood) in the same palette used for trench warfare doesn't work. So it goes through screwed-up adventure after screwed-up adventure, all leading up to this! He seems determined to be running with the hares and hunting with the hounds, never acknowledging that he himself had a significant role in what is yet another badly screwed-up UN endeavour. Belfast is easily the most crazed, screwed-up city you'll ever come across. At every level, they have discovered or rediscovered that dropping an active duty force into a screwed-up situation unscrews it pretty fast. I didn't have the screwed-up childhood or soul-wrenching angst or any other useful twisted motivation for soloing. We are surviving through this really screwed-up time in the music business. He starts going back in time to fix things and coming back to ever more screwed-up present-day circumstances. His fictional forays into the lives of women suggest that the church dooms its female parishioners to screwed-up relationships with men. 2British (of paper or fabric) crumpled or crushed into a ball. a screwed-up paper bag Example sentencesExamples I was about to throw a piece of screwed-up paper into the yellow jug which serves as waste-paper basket. Inside it, there are a dozen or more screwed-up tissues, crumpled notes and general chaos. He is trailing behind him a large plastic bag full of rubbish - some screwed-up newspapers, an empty Reddy-Brek box - that he carries everywhere. Insulate non-frost proof containers with bubble wrap or ‘duvets’ made from bin liners stuffed with screwed-up newspaper. From his jacket pocket he pulls a fistful of screwed-up scraps of paper - a bus ticket, a cappuccino receipt, a 1997 pledge card, a picture of Gordon Brown, and more. Children in ragged clothes made the most of the daylight hours, playing football with screwed-up balls of cloth and grass just beyond the bus station. 2.1 (of a person's face or eyes) crumpled, especially because of worry or effort. everyone looks ugly with red-rimmed eyes and a screwed-up face Example sentencesExamples I saw the faces of my children flashing on the back of my screwed-up eyes and I wished I didn't. She was sobbing her heart out, complete with the screwed-up expression, blood-infused face, and tears dripping down in a continual stream. ‘Your grandfather's eyes, your grandmother's mouth,’ an aunt said one Christmas, breathing into my screwed-up face. They appear to be confused, staring down death and disaster with screwed-up faces. What struck me most, however, given my day of finger-pointing, screwed-up faces and unreceptive ears, was how the speaker came to explain Pollock's work in the simplest of terms. Definition of screwed-up in US English: screwed-up adjectiveˌskrudˈəpˌskro͞odˈəp informal 1(of a person) emotionally disturbed; neurotic. the screwed-up children of wealthy parents Example sentencesExamples Waiting for due process of the legitimate legal system seems a small price to pay to save even one screwed-up teenager. I'm still an insane, screwed-up, depressed teenager, and I personally don't think that writing letters to myself will change that. The real punishment is having to sit in prison and watch a TV movie about what a screwed-up freak you are. Her breakdown plays like a story your friend told you about some screwed-up friend of a friend, ridiculous but local enough that you can't help but buy in. He is our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary. Holloway is a totally screwed-up British bobby on the run with a sack full of money. This is not what the Orioles should be: a repository for screwed-up superstars whose former teams will do anything to dump them. Speaking of screwed-up families, what's going on with Tristan? ‘She's head of the PTA, but she's also probably the most screwed-up and loneliest person here,’ he says. He affirmed that all we have on this planet are conflicted, screwed-up people, so he has the right to be screwed up too. The film explores members of a strikingly dysfunctional family dominated by three siblings once hailed as child geniuses, but now recognizable as deeply screwed-up adults. The children of such persons would be screwed-up and not know right from wrong. How surprising would it be if Harry was a bit bloody angry inside and more than a little screwed-up? Of course I was shocked about what you did, but you were a screwed-up kid. Most people want their showbiz heroes and heroines to be screwed-up, unpredictable and prone to artistic tantrums, don't they? They are not schools in the traditional sense, but holding pens for very troubled, screwed-up kids, and several of these schools are located outside the United States. The 1984 hit is a story about two completely screwed-up people in the Bronx, each trying to turn the other into his or her salvation. Maybe I'm just so screwed-up and flawed that nothing would make me happy. I got on well with him but he was just a really screwed-up person. She was, essentially, the most screwed-up person he had ever met. 1.1 (of an event or a situation) spoiled by being badly managed or carried out. that was the most screwed-up audition Example sentencesExamples I didn't have the screwed-up childhood or soul-wrenching angst or any other useful twisted motivation for soloing. Belfast is easily the most crazed, screwed-up city you'll ever come across. He's finally realized what's happened, that what's happening to him isn't some screwed-up act of fate. So it goes through screwed-up adventure after screwed-up adventure, all leading up to this! At every level, they have discovered or rediscovered that dropping an active duty force into a screwed-up situation unscrews it pretty fast. She herself had put forward the option that made his whole screwed-up situation so much easier. He starts going back in time to fix things and coming back to ever more screwed-up present-day circumstances. His fictional forays into the lives of women suggest that the church dooms its female parishioners to screwed-up relationships with men. We are surviving through this really screwed-up time in the music business. He seems determined to be running with the hares and hunting with the hounds, never acknowledging that he himself had a significant role in what is yet another badly screwed-up UN endeavour. Depicting childhood (even an impoverished and screwed-up childhood) in the same palette used for trench warfare doesn't work.
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