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
Brooklyn Brainery in Prospect Heights is all about the quirky one-day knowledge dump.
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The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2026
Her Catherine is less defined by the quirky, appealing eccentricities of Mary-Louise Parker’s performance in the original 2000 Broadway staging, but is girded by a certain angry resignation, fearful of what life might have in store, furious too, yet seething with a will to defy it all.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
Browse vintage shops, record stores and quirky boutiques.
—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
Portland, Oregon, is walkable, food-forward and steeped in quirky culture.
—Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
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The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2026
Her Catherine is less defined by the quirky, appealing eccentricities of Mary-Louise Parker’s performance in the original 2000 Broadway staging, but is girded by a certain angry resignation, fearful of what life might have in store, furious too, yet seething with a will to defy it all.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
Browse vintage shops, record stores and quirky boutiques.
—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
Portland, Oregon, is walkable, food-forward and steeped in quirky culture.
—Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirky
Adjective
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Bischoff found the whole situation bizarre.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The results were colorful, bursting with shapes and patterns, but often totally bizarre.—
Gabe Montesanti,
PEOPLE,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Ike is also just so funny at playing desperate characters like Benny or Morgan Tookers on The Mindy Project.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
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That’s funny, because even though kids are on Chromebooks all day, most of them aren’t learning how to type!—
Austin Elias-de Jesus,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Getty Images With five weeks of Europe’s biggest domestic league seasons left to play, all kinds of strange scorelines are starting to roll in.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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The end of kayfabe brought about a strange artistic flourishing—wrestling postmodernism.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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This had to be a weird clerical mistake.—
John McPhee,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Her idea of architecture has always been a little weird.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In Ukraine, using religious rhetoric in elections would seem odd, even inappropriate.—
Nataliya Gumenyuk,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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At first blush Ternus might seem an odd choice for that AI future.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Either way, these couplets start to reveal just how curious this poem is.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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This makes Porta a curious experience for both party hosts and guests.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That means Hawkins Lab may get up to some minor shenanigans, and the Upside Down may harbor peculiar creatures — one of which props up the first season’s central mystery about a hostile spore-spreading species — but none of them can be any more nefarious or terrifying than what popped up before.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Apr. 2026
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One peculiar feature of this ball is that the girls are each pulled into a side room to be interviewed by potential suitors over Microsoft Teams.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The African American Wax Museum, in Harlem, was the singular creation of the artist and eccentric Raven Chanticleer, a sharecropper’s son from South Carolina who reinvented himself, spectacularly, in Manhattan.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Set in the Roaring Twenties, the story follows the details of the novel about eccentric and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of the lost love of his youth, Daisy Buchanan.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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