: 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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Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
And weirdly, a lot of people in our cast have hit me up about this.
—Will Harris, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
The weirdly democratized art of fiction means that writers with only a fraction of the cerebral heft of a Susan Sontag can produce novels far better than something as weighty as In America.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The heartwarming, but also sometimes weirdly terrifying series (the fire at the blind school!
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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