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peculiar
adjective as in characteristic, distinguishing
adjective as in bizarre, odd
Example Sentences
He called it “peculiar” that Loyola Marymount made an about-face after negotiating for months.
SO: Stanley Kubrick said, “I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists, neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.”
"We get all sorts of peculiar messages and nasty information... it is incredibly hard to deal with but we are just doing what we can to try and understand what's happened," she said.
The mood at Spurs has been peculiar this summer.
He said: "A lot of young people play the piano, that's not peculiar at all. But having a young person play the organ... it's really unheard of."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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