How to Use screwup in a Sentence

screwup

1 of 2 noun

• She's a screwup who can't hold down a job.
• That was a major screwup.
• The Raiders will rue the Carr screwup, and maybe complain that the refs and the league are out to get ‘em.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• The whole thing was filmed in one session, screwups and all.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2017
• But a screwup on the scale of Alex Jones’ lawyers is a whole other matter.
  — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
• That's the kind of screwup-trifecta that can wake a person up to this fact.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2019
• That’s the kind of screwup-trifecta that can wake a person up to this fact.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
• In a screwup, the phosphorus exploded not over the target but over the men.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• How did the chicken chain manage to stay beloved despite the order screwups?
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 17 June 2023
• Another one of these screwups, and he’ll be put on probation.
  — Paul Auster, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
• His slow horses come in every type, and they got kicked out of the service for every imaginable screwup.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• But, the film’s emotional stakes come not from any big plot reveal, but from the performance of Emilia Clarke as Kate, the lovable screwup at the center of the tale.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2019
• What did the doctor say about always blaming other people for your screwups?
  — Glenn Eichler, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Gabe is a bit of a screwup — though Diana uses more colorful language to describe him.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• There have been screwups on the field, questionable decisions from the managers, the usual foibles that have critics pointing the fingers of blame.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2017
• The screwup leaves two fully functioning satellites in the wrong, worthless orbit.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• Back in Paris, Julien capitalizes on Emily’s screwup and absence to get into Pierre’s good graces.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• Eventually Nance pointed to Okoro on the bench and then Nance tapped his own chest, admitting his screwup.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2021
• Even the president is said to have worried about the beating the young pair, especially his beloved daughter, have taken in the press for their screwups and failures.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
• Samsung is on an apology tour for the gobsmacking screwup that...
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2017
• Right now, though, the simplest explanation seems like the most persuasive one: Epstein wanted out, and a series of screwups allowed him to beat the system, again.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
• But Coco is a loveable screwup who can rescue people and animals in ways only a kitty could.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
• The story of a 1917 flu pandemic may well go down as a Trump classic, a pointless and unnecessary screwup that is also very telling about the President.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2020
• Risian’s coach, realizing that death was the likely outcome of this screwup, floated motionless at the surface, gazing at the safety divers, who were too stunned to blink.
  — James Nestor, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2012
• The county question arises from yet another screwup by county government, the failure to pay more than 1,000 bills.
  — cleveland, 29 Feb. 2020
• The project—and tight-fisted Congress—probably can't handle more cleaning solvent screwups.
  — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 27 June 2018
• Miazga meanders in his analysis but his takeaway is simple enough: both Byrnes and Legg were screwups.
  — Justin Nobel, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2017
• Ji-Yoon meets with poor Lila, who is getting hounded by reporters about Bill’s screwup, which endangers her own academic future.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• His solar sail project, named Cosmos 1, has faced months of bureaucratic hassles and technical screwups before even breaking the waves.
  — Evan Ratliff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2001
• Staged mostly in dank basements and empty parking lots, the film follows Scott (Davidson), a screwup in his mid-20s with vague aspirations of being a tattoo artist and who still lives with his mother (Marisa Tomei).
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 June 2020

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screw up

2 of 2 verb

• Guys screw up in the NFL all the time — just look at the draft.
  — David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• Like the rest of us, he’s got the risks and the rewards all screwed up.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• Here are the CEOs who screwed up bad enough to rise to the top of my 2019 naughty list.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 17 Dec. 2019
• The video makes clear that there are a number of ways to screw up.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• So much effort to go through, and such a small detail to screw up in the end.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• How screwed up is Brigham Young football for the next three or four years?
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
• The first: that the city of Miami screwed up and now wants the media not to do its job.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 4 Nov. 2017
• But that’s far from the only way to screw up an election.
  — Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Otherwise, the rest of the outfit has been screwed up since 1997.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
• Middle school was a safe place, for the most part, for kids to screw up and learn how not to do it again the next time.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2022
• Whiff on the sixth overall selection, and the Colts screwed up.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 17 Mar. 2018
• The whole system is screwed up, and no one has any idea how to fix it, so it’ll be done away with.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 1 Aug. 2019
• Prisons are a catchall for people who are born screwed and go on to screw up.
  — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
• The second sure way to screw up a pitch is marketers that manage the pitch on their own.
  — Avi Dan, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• How will the sports leagues screw up this Supreme Court decision?
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 15 May 2018
• But leave it to the kiddos to screw up an otherwise sound plan.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
• This version of Sakamoto winces and screws up his face just as the real one did.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• This woman has screwed up my life three ways to Sunday.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The White House screwed up the titles of foreign leaders and their countries.
  — David Nakamura, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
• He’s killed off in a senseless way—some could even say his send-off was screwed up and random and mean.
  — TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
• The pricing screw up occurred in India when the game listing went live on the Epic Game Store.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 17 Aug. 2022
• And barrier-breakers are sure to get knocked around and screw up.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
• Sometimes the maps are wrong, because tall buildings tend to screw up GPS.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• The Trump-Mueller meeting hasn't even taken place yet and Trump already has screwed up.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• The Broncos were too screwed up seven years ago for Little Shanny to kiss the sky here.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• For somehow managing to screw up what should be a very good thing.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• So Question One is, what happens when Sam Bee screws up?
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 28 June 2018
• What should well-off parents know about how money can screw up kids?
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
• Boulware was worried that the White House might release the data and screw up his chances with the journal.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
• Sometimes their clocks screw up (courtesy of climate change?).
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024