: in a weird manner : in a strange way
a weirdly familiar place
has been behaving weirdly lately
… in the pellucid air everything seemed weirdly beautiful …—
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. WodehouseExamples of weirdly in a Sentence
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Though all this is precise and intelligent, the overall effect is weirdly narrow and not exactly news.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
Natalie Portman is a whole teenager, but her character is weirdly flirting with this little kid?
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 May 2024
And weirdly, that was actually my in to this movie.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
The cilantro volunteers everywhere and, weirdly, loves the cold.
—Bon Appétit, 3 May 2024
To date, Khruangbin’s albums have passed 775 million streams, a large number that still does not capture their weirdly broad appeal.
—Ryan Bradley MacLeod Andrews Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
That reversal makes for a weirdly wholesome but deflating outcome.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Acceptance of the 87-year-old composer by the classical music establishment has been painfully slow and weirdly irregular.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Having positioned himself as the country’s next, truly transformative, leader, Sunak offered his party a weirdly pallid program: the dismantling of HS2, plus two long-range, complex policies, to abolish smoking and to reform the A-levels—England’s standard end-of-school exams.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
Natalie Portman is a whole teenager, but her character is weirdly flirting with this little kid?
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 May 2024
And weirdly, that was actually my in to this movie.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
The cilantro volunteers everywhere and, weirdly, loves the cold.
—Bon Appétit, 3 May 2024
To date, Khruangbin’s albums have passed 775 million streams, a large number that still does not capture their weirdly broad appeal.
—Ryan Bradley MacLeod Andrews Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
That reversal makes for a weirdly wholesome but deflating outcome.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Acceptance of the 87-year-old composer by the classical music establishment has been painfully slow and weirdly irregular.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Having positioned himself as the country’s next, truly transformative, leader, Sunak offered his party a weirdly pallid program: the dismantling of HS2, plus two long-range, complex policies, to abolish smoking and to reform the A-levels—England’s standard end-of-school exams.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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