: 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 …—
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Guests arrived to the ceremony via ferry — a weirdly poetic parallel to the guest transportation for Connor's Succession season 4 wedding ceremony.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Early’s inspirations for the film run the gamut, and the star and filmmaker has been open about wanting to blend everything from Sirkian melodramas to old-school TV movies of the week to plunge us into his very specific, very funny, and often weirdly moving mindset.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
The clinical engineering side of it and me-as-an-actual-person side of it sit weirdly together in my head.
—Maria Reva
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Early’s inspirations for the film run the gamut, and the star and filmmaker has been open about wanting to blend everything from Sirkian melodramas to old-school TV movies of the week to plunge us into his very specific, very funny, and often weirdly moving mindset.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
The clinical engineering side of it and me-as-an-actual-person side of it sit weirdly together in my head.
—Maria Reva
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for weirdly
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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