weirdly

adverb

weird·​ly ˈwird-lē 

: 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

Examples of weirdly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Chunks of flesh fly after a weirdly convoluted introduction to a family possessed. — ABC News, 8 July 2026

While there’s no confirmation it was based on a true story, something weirdly similar did happen in 2008, over 10 years before this movie was made. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

And yet for God’s sake, just look at the man—at his dispiriting attempts at humor, his weirdly off-putting outfits, his incessant posting of banalities and faux profundities and extreme-right disinformation on social media. — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026

Critics weren’t as fond of the weirdly toothless movie, but audiences showed up anyway. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above