screw you

alternative screw-you

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screw, you.

   I can screw you in front of everyone. I don't care, we have a thing going on, you know. I love you,” she said.

   2020, David Gomadza, EVELINA: The Alpha

alternative screw-you

1. idiomaticmildlyslangvulgarless offensive version of fuck you.

   Screw you—go annoy someone else!

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   You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you.

   Screw you! You think you can come to my house dressed like a slob?

   "Screw you, asshole," she says, reeling in her poon, looking back toward the boulevard for some promising westbound traffic. Whatever this guy has in mind, it is probably unprofessional.

   2011, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 168

   Entrant: 'Denied? For what reason?' / Inspector: 'It is clearly stamped there.' / Entrant: 'Oh. Screw you anyways.'

   2013, Lucas Pope, Papers, Please, level/area: Day 18

   During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.

   2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents

   Synonyms: fuck you, get stuffed, up yours

plural screw yous · alternative screw-you

1. An act of defiance and contempt.

   You know what it is about that game, the thing that id Software says isn't worth their time (which I personally believe is a big screw you to us gamers),

   1997, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 150-153

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   Partly as a 'screw you' to all the people who treated me so badly, to be honest. Show them the ugly duckling has morphed into a swan, that kind of thing.

   2011, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Tim Waggoner, Ghost Trackers, →ISBN, page 7

   Well, how about we talk about the way you disrespected me for the last fourteen years by ignoring me? That kinda felt like a big screw you from you to me.”

   2017, Nina Levine, Hyde's Absolution