plural weirdos
: a person who is extraordinarily strange or eccentric
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Examples of weirdo in a Sentence
Noun
one of those weirdos that the rest of the town always seemed to be talking about
Adjective
he saw some weirdo lights in the sky and immediately concluded that it had to be a UFO
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Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
The ceremony is overseen by someone in a Ku Klux Klan costume and attended by a collection of weirdos, including a young man in drag — not Divine, as Waters had not yet met his future muse.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
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Noun
Kant, Fichte, and Hegel were all world-historic moral weirdos; Kant was famously celibate, but Schelling, with Goethe as his wingman, ended up stealing Schlegel’s wife.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
The ceremony is overseen by someone in a Ku Klux Klan costume and attended by a collection of weirdos, including a young man in drag — not Divine, as Waters had not yet met his future muse.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
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“Weirdo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdo. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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