bizarre

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Police allege the woman, now aged 30, was drugged before being blindfolded, sexually assaulted and defrauded during what they described as a bizarre and callous series of fake prayer sessions in Sydney's west between 2001 and 2005.

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  1. adjective Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd. See Synonyms at fantastic.

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  • Welded on to her original bias towards the strange and the bizarre were the essays of that interpretive and poetic genius Paul Jennings, and, because of his extraordinary and prodigal vision, she saw more in the ghost station than was actually, pedestrianly, there. —  Watson's Choice - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 28 - 1955
  • That is just bizarre, that is just Herbert Hoover. —  BMI Headlines
  • To my mind arcade games are at their best when they are surreal, strange, or bizarre which is exactly the nature of Dandy, side-scrolling shooter game where you play a magician named Dandy who must battle in-coming hordes of strange creatures descending from the sky. —  Kris Abel's Tech Life
  • R L from Canada writes: Diane Marie re: rude - bizarre, even - behaviour by Silvio Berlusconi. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • What the Globe has not reported is the rude - bizarre, even - behaviour by Silvio Berlusconi. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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weird ·  grotesque ·  disturb ·  fascinate ·  horrible ·  ludicrous ·  inexplicable ·  exotic
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  1. French, from Spanish bizarro, brave, probably from Basque bizar, beard.

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  1. F. (formerly also bigearre, bijarre), strange, capricious, formerly headlong, angry, orig. valiant, = Italian bizzarro, irascible, choleric, from Spanish Portuguese bizarro, gallant, brave, valiant, perhaps from Basque bizarra, a beard; cf. Spanish hombre de bigote, a man of spirit (bigote, mustache).
 

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