as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirks
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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 quirk
Adrienne So, Wired News, 21 July 2025
This is due to one of the peculiar quirks of quantum mechanics that shows simply measuring particles can change them!
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
These small towns offer quirky handmade furniture shops and easy walking trails, so use the extra daytime to follow your curiosity.
—Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 6 Aug. 2025
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Noun
At least during early months, the app and on-device controls tend to offer more quirks than functionality.
—Adrienne So, Wired News, 21 July 2025
This is due to one of the peculiar quirks of quantum mechanics that shows simply measuring particles can change them!
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Adjective
The cast doesn’t seem half as quirky or lovable as The Office’s cast, for one thing.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
These small towns offer quirky handmade furniture shops and easy walking trails, so use the extra daytime to follow your curiosity.
—Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirk
Noun
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Clean sheets appeared on the bed as if by magic, a trick many high-end hotels have forgotten.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The brand recommends laying the topper flat to expand for several hours after removing it from the packaging, but shoppers note that fluffing it in the dryer before use also does the trick.—
Maggie Horton,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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After a couple of insulting caricatures, increasingly bizarre depictions of the Vice President started to spread through the internet, the trend becoming a competition to see who could create the most hideous, weird or original Vance.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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These clever yet bizarre gadgets are both fun and oddly useful.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The humor was coming from the characters and their traits.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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Players can maximize the traits of their gear by activating certain mutations.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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However, Perry apparently didn’t find the post funny.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
11 Aug. 2025
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Those sorts of stunts—vaguely reckless, endearing, kind of funny—feel indicative of DeMarco’s general lack of interest in taking himself too seriously.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Can’t a mother have characteristics outside of that culturally narrowed scope?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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The Justice Department earlier this month published a list of the nine characteristics of sanctuary jurisdictions.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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What begins as a strange ritual quickly unravels into a waking nightmare.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
14 Aug. 2025
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The craft beer industry is in a strange place right now.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And some of Anna's mannerisms when trying to calm herself in stressful situations should be recognizable to many parent viewers.—
Katie Grant,
Parents,
7 Aug. 2025
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Informed of the milestone, which ranked him No. 25 among all genres of live performers — just below Dua Lipa — Maniscalco responded with his usual offstage reserve, a 180-degree departure from the outsized physicality and mannerisms of his performances.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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Two-tone paint job and that weird hump of a trunk, remember?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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Like everybody else in the show, he’s squeezed by the various, weird incentives of a capitalist medical system.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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