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
If your family enjoys the quirky side of Americana, the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, delivers.
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Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
Route 66 is currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, and boasts plenty of charming small towns and quirky roadside attractions to explore along the way.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2026
Jennifer Lawrence is always a standout in our book, often spotted in quirky color mashups.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2026
Tool and Scrap Metal Garden Art Old rakes, spoons or tools that have seen better days can turn into quirky garden decor.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
Route 66 is currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, and boasts plenty of charming small towns and quirky roadside attractions to explore along the way.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2026
Jennifer Lawrence is always a standout in our book, often spotted in quirky color mashups.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2026
Tool and Scrap Metal Garden Art Old rakes, spoons or tools that have seen better days can turn into quirky garden decor.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirky
Adjective
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La beauté bizarre of the Lobster Boy is decadent.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Fabianne Therese plays a young woman on a hike in the woods with her boyfriend (Seann William Scott) who runs afoul of a bizarre, imposing figure (pro wrestler Max the Impaler) with a porcelain doll mask intent on raising her as a child.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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This would be much funnier if Rimura were, indeed, simply a slime.—
Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
1 May 2026
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Just being more confident in my choice of what is funny and what’s not.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The truck had been at the head of a column of seven rescue vehicles, all of which had received clearance from the tower to cross Runway 4 at Taxiway D and head toward a United Airlines flight that was evacuating due to a strange odor onboard.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
28 Apr. 2026
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On World Rhythms, Lockwood trusts the listener to hear the arc of its noises, to trace their emergence and disappearance, their strange, seductive confluence.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Morgan, as Dinkins, is a colleague and eventually friend of a dweeby little documentarian played by Daniel Radcliffe, who starts out as the straight man and then inexorably becomes just as weird as everyone else in this show.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
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Well, that’s always been weird to me.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
3 May 2026
Adjective
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With it, this is just kind of an odd, unfortunate (especially for the bird) story.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Business major Andrea Lui found the chatbot’s voice to be surprisingly human, but the conversation felt choppy with odd pauses.—
Jocelyn Gecker,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Cloud’s availability this late in training camp was curious, considering her experience in the WNBA.—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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People are curious if protein pasta or whole wheat pasta is better for their health, and for good reason.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Still, politics are rarely articulated in #vintagelife, which, with its manic reiteration of past-tense norms, occupies a peculiar position in relation to mainstream culture.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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And now, in the midst of our own peculiar version of civil dissolution, comes a new edition from the Library of America.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Inspired by a short story from Welsh poet and author Dylan Thomas, the film is said to follow a young boy sent to spend one summer with his charismatic and wildly eccentric grandfather on a remote Welsh farm.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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Guests showed up in their most eccentric finery.—
Blanche Marcel,
Vanity Fair,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Quirky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirky. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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