1. screwtape - Noun
2. screwtape - Verb
screwtape (third-person singular simple present screwtapes, present participle screwtaping, simple past and past participle screwtaped)
To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.
screwtape (plural screwtapes)
One of a set of slow-tempo, lo-fi psychedelic mixtapes created by DJ Screw around 1992
While Wormwood is delighted at this, Screwtape admonishes Wormwood to keep the Patient safe, in hope that they can compromise his faith over a long lifetime. Source: Internet
With this end in mind, Screwtape urges Wormwood in Letter VI to promote passivity and irresponsibility in the Patient: "(God) wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them". Source: Internet
Scalia remarked, "The Screwtape Letters is a great book. Source: Internet
In Letter VIII, Screwtape explains to his protégé the different purposes that God and the devils have for the human race: "We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons". Source: Internet
• ISFDB shows unillustrated covers, and credits no cover artists, for both first editions published by Geoffrey Bles, the Letters (1942) and the omnibus with "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" and a new preface by Lewis (1961). Source: Internet
Screwtape and other demons are portrayed as consciously using the subversion of education and intellectual thought in the West to bring about its overthrow by the communist enemy from without and within. Source: Internet