as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
the waitress styles her hair in a quirky way that always gets her remembered by customers
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Recent Examples of quirky
Tory Burch leaned into a quirky, off-beat palette that felt fresh and full of personality.
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Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2025
Oscilloscope’s roots in New York’s music and film scenes run deep and that quirky green logo has been the opening act for so many of our favorite indie classics of the past decade and a half or so.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
It is all put in motion by a quirky couple that David (Farrell) discovers on an ad for a car-rental agency.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
Joey the quirky pup finally got a new owner who understands him, according to a North Carolina animal shelter.
—Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
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Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2025
Oscilloscope’s roots in New York’s music and film scenes run deep and that quirky green logo has been the opening act for so many of our favorite indie classics of the past decade and a half or so.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
It is all put in motion by a quirky couple that David (Farrell) discovers on an ad for a car-rental agency.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
Joey the quirky pup finally got a new owner who understands him, according to a North Carolina animal shelter.
—Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirky
Adjective
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Amid violently bizarre practices and visually upsetting situations, Cam finally sees a bigger picture.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
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After all, the saga involves asset seizures, the arrest and imprisonment of Citgo executives in Venezuela, prisoner exchanges, and multiple auction rounds in a bizarre, winding legal process.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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What follows is a dramedy that is simultaneously an anthropological examination of the film industry’s denizens and a disturbing — though often very funny — look at the fragility of identity in that world.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Sep. 2025
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My idea of funny is the English say the craziest things with a straight face.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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At the heart of the discovery lies one of quantum mechanics’ strangest features — uncertainty.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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The combination of climbing around this strange building and having heard the almost legendary stories about Karl-Göran was evocative and haunting.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Following up, the experiment yielded a weird and unexpected result.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
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Escalators are so consequential to Trump, who has always had a weird aversion to plain-old steps.—
Chris Brennan,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Also, there was the idea that because Regis is 400 and some odd years old, he's got a lot of life experience and accrued a lot of wisdom.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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By the late 1980s, a small group of academics and a few curious consumers connected to each other on the Internet, which was still mostly text-based.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Although highly effective, conventional pest-repellent methods are full of harmful chemicals that put you and your family, especially curious children and pets, at risk.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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An African American man (Corey Hawkins) is about to lose his ancestral home when a peculiar white businessman with a European accent (Willem Dafoe) offers to rent his basement for the summer.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
20 Sep. 2025
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The notion of sketch comedy, of all things, as a guide to life, that its lack of a safety net is a metaphor for how to live, is niche and peculiar.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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After a period of wild and mostly erratic spending under Farhad Moshiri’s ownership left them in dire financial straits, the club are trying to rebuild cautiously under the Friedkin Group.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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Young Marlins showed playoff potential this year but were too up-and-down erratic.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Quirky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirky. Accessed 26 Sep. 2025.
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