: 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 show’s ambition — narratively, emotionally — feels weirdly exciting in itself.
—Adam Moss, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
So what music to my ears were her astute assessment about the precision of Catullus’s diction across languages and the weirdly contemporary vocabulary itself.
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In that era, The New Yorker occupied a weirdly contradictory place in the new American nexus of highbrow and lowbrow, tradition and counterculture.
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Gonzo the Great Curious, chaotic and weirdly brilliant, Gonzo is always chasing new ideas and reinventing himself in the process, which is quite similar to Gemini’s duality.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
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Adam Moss, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
So what music to my ears were her astute assessment about the precision of Catullus’s diction across languages and the weirdly contemporary vocabulary itself.
—Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
In that era, The New Yorker occupied a weirdly contradictory place in the new American nexus of highbrow and lowbrow, tradition and counterculture.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Gonzo the Great Curious, chaotic and weirdly brilliant, Gonzo is always chasing new ideas and reinventing himself in the process, which is quite similar to Gemini’s duality.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 22 Dec. 2025.
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