Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a weird manner; with a weird or unearthly effect or appearance.

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  • adverb In a weird manner.

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  • adverb in a weird manner

Etymologies

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weird +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • If the budget is significantly bigger it make contrast weirdly from the original movie.

    Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible Sequel To Be A Feature Film | /Film 2010

  • But please, just admit that Dan Radcliffe has gotten older, and stop dressing him in weirdly infantilized shirts with blue stripes and 'I'm a big boy' clothes to make him look younger.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Jes Battis 2007

  • But please, just admit that Dan Radcliffe has gotten older, and stop dressing him in weirdly infantilized shirts with blue stripes and 'I'm a big boy' clothes to make him look younger.

    HP Jes Battis 2007

  • The whip-poor-will was crying along the river, and far up-stream the loon called weirdly across the water ... ..

    The Long Ago

  • But his boy, old Jimmy's grandson, is still a lamplighter - still illuminating the streets of his town, still turning on its lamps when the loon calls weirdly across the river in the gathering dusk.

    The Long Ago

  • And what their voices were like, all men may know who will go to the wilderness lakes and listen; for, wonderful as it may seem, these second birds have come down to us through perhaps a million years, and live to-day, giving a strange clear cry before a storm, and at other times calling weirdly in lone places, so that men who are within hearing always say, "The loons are laughing."

    Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

  • All these things _we_ know are the effects of laws; but the ancients attributed them to living Powers, -- the CHTHONIC POWERS (from the Greek word CHTHON, "earth, soil"), which have by some later and dreamy thinkers been called weirdly but not unaptly, "the Mothers," mysteriously at work in the depths of silence and darkness, unseen, unreachable, and inexhaustibly productive.

    Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria 1879

  • The night rushed down, and the snow descended fiercely; the terrified cattle tried to find shelter from the scourge of the storm; a hollow roar rang sullenly amid the darkness; stray sea-birds far overhead called weirdly, and it seemed as if the spirit of evil were abroad in the night.

    The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

  • That will continue Monday when Fisher and the players union restart labor negotiations with the NBA in New York, the first meeting since the work stoppage became official on July 1 and a monthlong period that Fisher described as "weirdly quiet."

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • - might be defined as weirdly Chekhovian, with its tangle of unrequited loves and the often farcical romantic-erotic escapades of its characters on their road to nowhere.

    LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

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