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
And the quirky evils of Sunny and Skull are handled with sharp devilishness by Mulcahy and Raasch.
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David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
Her radiant smile and quirky charm secured her memorable roles in Oh, God!
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
There also is an emphasis on creative thinking mixed with gentle humor and silly or quirky adventures.
—Sarah Scott, Parents, 28 Oct. 2024
In order to produce the crude digital effects needed to sell the infomercial tone of the shorts, the Lonely Island crew asked the SNL props department for a list of various quirky items.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
Her radiant smile and quirky charm secured her memorable roles in Oh, God!
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
There also is an emphasis on creative thinking mixed with gentle humor and silly or quirky adventures.
—Sarah Scott, Parents, 28 Oct. 2024
In order to produce the crude digital effects needed to sell the infomercial tone of the shorts, the Lonely Island crew asked the SNL props department for a list of various quirky items.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirky
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Physicists debated for decades (opens a new tab) whether this bizarre superfluid-solid hybrid could exist.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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These may seem like last-ditch efforts in the final runup to Tuesday, or like counter-programming to the increasingly vocal (and bizarre) antics of Elon Musk.WIRED, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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This simultaneously funny and profound musical spins around a teenage girl (the lovable Carolee Carmello) suffering from a rare genetic disease that makes her age five times faster than normal.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The jokes just aren’t funny enough — though there is one killer line about Shehzada, which was one of Aaryan’s major flops — and the scares aren’t terrifying enough.Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an old-fashioned umbrella.Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The result was a strange hodgepodge of a TV series — novel and interesting in hindsight, but maybe not distinct enough to inspire a spot on the DVR at the time.Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Dilettante listing brokers can also cost sellers with bad marketing, weird staging, and a lack of responsiveness.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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He is represented by no gallery, and works in a basement in Brooklyn, from which emerges the fruits of his weird obsessions.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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The luxury sedan with the odd name is for buyers with about $80,000 (with all options) to spend and who are considering a break from status quo.James Raia, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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That’s where Laddie Coburn struck an odd juxtaposition to the traffic jam on West Agate Avenue.Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Elon Musk, not Melania or Kimberly Guilfoyle, appears in curious new Trump family photo A bigfoot ‘sighting’ report was logged in Connecticut.Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Still, that's a curious extreme Apple is maintaining here to keep the port out of sight.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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However, because its peculiar shape was reminiscent of a clothes iron, the Flatiron nickname quickly stuck.Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
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Here’s what that data looked like: The peculiar format of the race makes the data a bit tricky to interpret.Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2024
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Notorious for his fiery personality and erratic behavior, Steinbrenner replaced his managers 20 times in his first 23 seasons—firing and then rehiring Billy Martin five times—and changed publicity directors 13 times in 26 years, according to Sports Illustrated.Justin Birnbaum, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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The bottom line: As Election Day nears, Trump has not tapered his off-script controversial comments — rather, his language has grown more erratic and hyperbolic.Avery Lotz, Axios, 20 Oct. 2024
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