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
Creative play can solve almost any problem with Mercury in your artistic sector sextiling quirky Uranus in your partnership zone.
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Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2026
That detail transforms this from a quirky escape story into something with real stakes for wildlife preservation.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
But ultimately, Neville builds his entire film around the fact that Lorne is hiding in plain sight, generating laughs about this quirky Oz-like character.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026
The Cool Gen-Z Approved Style No matter if your wardrobe leans more maximalist or minimalist, ballet sneakers are the sleek, quirky-cool silhouette currently having a moment.
—Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 11 Apr. 2026
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Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2026
That detail transforms this from a quirky escape story into something with real stakes for wildlife preservation.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
But ultimately, Neville builds his entire film around the fact that Lorne is hiding in plain sight, generating laughs about this quirky Oz-like character.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026
The Cool Gen-Z Approved Style No matter if your wardrobe leans more maximalist or minimalist, ballet sneakers are the sleek, quirky-cool silhouette currently having a moment.
—Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 11 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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Plus, some of my stickers are just funny.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Big-hearted and sharply funny, Lucy Schulman is a charming comedic coming-of-age story from multihyphenate Tribeca alum Ellie Sachs.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Still, scrolling through TMZ’s posts of congresspeople instills a strange rush of Schadenfreude.—
Paula Mejía,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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This is one of the stranger ironies — liberal politicians, often skeptical of market forces, become true believers in rosy stock market projections that will render new commitments affordable.—
Daniel DiSalvo,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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As the Pios regained traction, something weird happened.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2026
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The Midnight Show’s original cast breakout star Lillian Martin, whose career was cut tragically short in her mid-twenties, was the queen of the wacky and weird.—
Lee Kelly,
PEOPLE,
12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Four of Switzerland's 450-odd watch brands — Rolex, Cartier, Patek Philippe and Omega — make up over half the total Swiss retail market share, the report said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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An odd silence follows a massive explosion.—
Babak Rahimi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Welcome to Bon Appétit Bake Club, a community of curious bakers.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
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Essentially Shackleton became famous for failing – which does seem to be a somewhat curious American cultural persuasion.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Fortunately, Sanctions balances its downer tendencies with moments of levity and peculiar arrangements that only Souled American could have concocted.—
Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
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His peculiar, and very fertile, brain is on every page.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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An eccentric burnout, someone for whom the eighties had been dazzling but dimming at the same time.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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The series chronicles the exploits of Kuashal Niroula and Danny Garcia as they are roped into an impressive group of eccentric, like-minded con artists to form the ‘gay grifters’ swindling a bevy of unsuspecting victims out of millions in cash and property over a decade plus.—
Kate Aurthur,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
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