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
After a wild-card slate full of late-game heroics and quirky stat lines, exciting is an understatement.
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Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
The quirky and often-divisive estate stood perched on a corner lot along coveted Armstrong Parkway for nearly 30 years until it was demolished last Wednesday.
—Mary Grace Granados, Dallas Morning News, 13 Jan. 2026
Just across the street, Miya is a quirky, two-room Thai charmer with a relatively concise menu of curries, noodles, soups, salads and vegetables.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
The quirky fishing village of Matlacha, Florida, is splashed in color.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirky
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His work is marked by unusual, even bizarre, material choices that encrust spatial compositions reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative open space plans.—
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Some unnamed Chicago bartender in the early 1880s had the improbable idea of taking a Whiskey Sour and adding a little red wine to the top, inventing in a bizarre flash of insightone of the great warm weather whiskey drinks of our time.—
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The language is also often inviting, sometimes funny, like a real person telling you a real story from their real voice and body.—
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Still, the over-the-top direction the episode goes in did lead to plenty of funny moments off-camera.—
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The sounds had become a strange new normal for the diverse Central neighborhood.—
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And there was a strange preoccupation with running out of time, even though the show ended a good 15 minutes early as if the performers didn’t understand their own timeline.—
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The then-unknown Michael Shannon, whose early career roles in Chicago were every bit as weird as this play, starred in that production.—
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But this year, due to weird scheduling, the BAFTA nods will come out on January 27, after the Oscar nominations.—
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Toronto netminder Dennis Hildeby stoned Trevor Zegras on a breakaway, and later made consecutive saves on Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier to spring the odd-man rush that led to Cowan's goal.—
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The details of Cooper’s crime seemed too tempting to McNally, a high school dropout turned military-airplane electrician who’d pursued odd jobs and scams since being discharged.—
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The other thing that people are really curious about online are the song choices to play folks on.—
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Recently, as the political battle over congressional redistricting brought California into the national spotlight, Facebook users were shown a curious series of ads.—
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Two of the monkeys had applauded the event with hopping and grunts, but the other three had shot like arrows into the trees, chasing after the peculiar bird that had remained indifferent to their antics.—
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That left nine peculiar, small objects that were slightly larger than a single point of light in the data.—
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An eccentric wood and steel door hints at the residence’s remarkable forms.—
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Walking into the hotel, you’re immediately greeted by eccentric art pieces, from sculptures to paintings and photographs, as well as the hotel’s staple mascot, the four-foot red penguin sculpted from recycled plastic.—
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“Quirky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirky. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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