screwball

Speech parts

1. screwball - Noun

2. screwball - Adjective

3. screwball - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

a whimsically eccentric person

foolish; totally unsound

a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

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a crazy scheme Source: Internet

half-baked ideas Source: Internet

a screwball proposal without a prayer of working Source: Internet

As class consciousness declined and World War II unified various social orders, the savage screwball comedies of the twenties and thirties, proceeding through Rock Hudson – Doris Day -style comedies, gave way to more innocuous comedies. Source: Internet

But it came at something of a price, at least for modern-day viewers who turn on The Philadelphia Story expecting a frothy screwball comedy starring three of Hollywood’s biggest movie icons. Source: Internet

Even many of Elvis Presley 's films from the 1960s had drawn, consciously or unconsciously, the many characteristics of the screwball comedy genre. Source: Internet

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