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Meanings of screwball in inglês

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Type of frozen confection that first appeared in the 1970s.

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          A whimsically eccentric person.

              poca-solta

              Foolish; totally unsound.

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                    Usage of screwball in inglês
                    1
                    Bringing Up Baby is, of course, touted as the essential screwball comedy.
                    The Irish Times
                    2
                    For the first 45 minutes or so, it's a screwball family comedy.
                    Wired
                    3
                    Here are 10 marvelously screwball panels from this six-issue Silver Age series.
                    Wired
                    4
                    He reminded Lee of a character out of a 1940s screwball comedy.
                    Silent screams
                    5
                    Haddish has credibility, ease, screwball physicality and sheer star wattage in spades.
                    The Guardian
                    6
                    Those screwball comedies also had lots of strong, funny roles for women.
                    The Guardian
                    7
                    The subconscious death wish, or only a screwball kid playing with dynamite?
                    Go home, stranger
                    8
                    Your report wasn't suppressed; it's simply filed in the screwball file.
                    The Door Into Summer
                    9
                    Besides that, this driver, although very polite, is also a screwball.
                    In the night room: a novel
                    10
                    A combination of a screwball comedy, and a shrieking painful melodrama.
                    The new yorker
                    11
                    What does it mean to make a retro style screwball comedy in 1972?
                    The new yorker
                    12
                    It's obviously what reactivated the gate-butwhoever made it did a screwball job.
                    Stairway to the Stars
                    13
                    As with all screwball theories, the facts are easily explained away by true believers.
                    The Guardian
                    14
                    Some screwball had tried to hold up a branch bank with a water pistol.
                    Man on the run
                    15
                    Seems the van made a screwball turn and lost control.
                    Terminal Compromise
                    16
                    Jesse Armstrong's opus is tightly written, though -at points almost a screwball comedy.
                    The Guardian
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                    Screwball through the time