: 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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Mammals are weirdly easy to get right.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
Some particularly outrageous one-liners about race snuck into the film’s final cut, although much of its dicier material comes off as weirdly effortful instead of provocative or reckless.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
And yet, as Heller points out in a new piece, the race has felt weirdly empty.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
The laugh was, weirdly, really important to me.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2026
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Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
Some particularly outrageous one-liners about race snuck into the film’s final cut, although much of its dicier material comes off as weirdly effortful instead of provocative or reckless.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
And yet, as Heller points out in a new piece, the race has felt weirdly empty.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
The laugh was, weirdly, really important to me.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2026
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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