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
The rooms Judy likes to give each hotel a personality, but using Poldark as inspiration wouldn’t be nearly quirky enough for the Hutsons.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
The second-to-last episode of the quirky crime drama focused on the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, bringing the characters back from their splintered storylines to a central event.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
Glasco compared it to basketball players doing quirky ballhandling drills, like looping the ball around their ankles, stomach and neck.
—Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Hundreds of people have received varied and quirky variations of the same message.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 15 May 2026
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
The second-to-last episode of the quirky crime drama focused on the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, bringing the characters back from their splintered storylines to a central event.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
Glasco compared it to basketball players doing quirky ballhandling drills, like looping the ball around their ankles, stomach and neck.
—Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Hundreds of people have received varied and quirky variations of the same message.
—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirky
Adjective
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That is pretty bizarre, given how fantastic both atmospheres have been throughout the playoffs.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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Rather than representing a bizarre evolutionary innovation unique to salamanders, regeneration may actually reflect an ancient trait that many vertebrates once possessed more broadly.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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Jon Rahm is one of the best handful of golfers in the world, and, in media availability and his infrequent YouTube golf appearances, is thoughtful, funny and personable.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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Semple’s writing is warm and absurdly funny but also occasionally devastating—as when, roughly midway through the book, Adora digresses into recalling her experiences writing for a comedy show in the 1990s.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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They were considered to have strange physical afflictions or weak mental attitudes, and some people with endocrine diseases were even dismissed as ‘freaks’ and heckled in circuses or locked away in institutions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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So yes, there was a kind of resistance, because the film and the script could seem strange, and some people wanted to normalize it, to fit it into a genre.—
Roberto Prieto,
Variety,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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Tom always found something deeper, more creative, more thoughtful, weird, fun & unique.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
18 May 2026
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So that’s weird for Kickstarter.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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And maybe hold a parallel history of travel and displacement in some odd way?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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The episode included Colbert reminiscing on some odd and unfortunate moments from filming The Late Show, and the host chatting with some of his staff about their roles on the show.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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The curious thing, though, is that no one button can produce any of these results.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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Romano puts herself in the curious position of fighting a battle that has already been won on facts but not yet in legend.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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Emery is a peculiar case in management, a coach who is almost caught in the grey area between very good jobs and massive ones.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The accounting quality, governance architecture, and capital-structure questions visible in the Cerebras S-1 are not peculiar to Cerebras.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2026
Adjective
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Chevillard, who worked as an animator on Despicable Me 2, enjoyed developing eccentric characters that are not Minions-famous, at least not yet.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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In 2022, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer released Corsage, the excellent feminist re-reading of the life of 19th century Empress Elizabeth, known as Sissi, with Vicki Krieps as the eccentric, anorexic empress and Florian Teichtmeister as her philandering husband, Franz Joseph I.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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“Quirky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirky. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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