: in a weird manner : in a strange way
a weirdly familiar place
has been behaving weirdly lately
… in the pellucid air everything seemed weirdly beautiful …—
P. G. Wodehouse
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The costumes and music and cinematography are all great and lovingly crafted, though at times a shot here or there looked weirdly fake.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
McKean gives his all with the performance, becoming, weirdly, one of the scariest villains in the franchise.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
These filters can cause the transmission to shift weirdly because the mass air flow sensor becomes contaminated.
—John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
And the two of them bailing on the home-brew competition at the first sight of cops (who are just there to support some colleagues) is weirdly sweet.
—Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
McKean gives his all with the performance, becoming, weirdly, one of the scariest villains in the franchise.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
These filters can cause the transmission to shift weirdly because the mass air flow sensor becomes contaminated.
—John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2025
And the two of them bailing on the home-brew competition at the first sight of cops (who are just there to support some colleagues) is weirdly sweet.
—Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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