"screwery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1969, Geoffrey Wolff, Bad Debts, page 62:",
          "text": "It had been haphazard, that screwery. Ann had said she had had enough of mischief and carelessness but couldn't bear to injure her family.",
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          "ref": "2011, Jeri Smith-Ready, Urban Fantasy Collection - Vampires: A Rush of Wings, ..., Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 837:",
          "text": "\"You're really going to screw her over, aren't you?\" \"Uh-huh.\" No point in showing remorse I don't feel. \"But it's screwery in self-defense. She can't wait to fire us all after the takeover.\"",
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          "ref": "2013 August 6, “Charlie Sheen -- New 'Angels' Identified ... Hardcore Porn Vets”, in TMZ:",
          "text": "One is beautiful ... one is brilliant ... and they're all bangin' Charlie -- at least, that's the presumption because Mr. Sheen's new \"angels\" are all well versed in the art of screwery, TMZ has learned.",
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          "ref": "2014 November 13, Anna Pulley, “Should I keep a blah winter boy- or girlfriend?”, in Chicago Tribune:",
          "text": "There's no need for repeat, sub-par screwery simply because you don't know many people yet.",
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          "ref": "2019 June 10, Steve Burke, GamersNexus:",
          "text": "AMD’s press event yielded a ton of interesting, useful information, especially on the architecture side. There was some marketing screwery in there, but a surprisingly low amount for this type of event.",
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          "ref": "1969, Geoffrey Wolff, Bad Debts, page 62:",
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          "ref": "2011, Jeri Smith-Ready, Urban Fantasy Collection - Vampires: A Rush of Wings, ..., Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 837:",
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          "ref": "2013 August 6, “Charlie Sheen -- New 'Angels' Identified ... Hardcore Porn Vets”, in TMZ:",
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