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STRANGELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a strange manner
Example:
a queerly inscribed sheet of paper
Synonyms:
funnily; oddly; queerly; strangely
Classified under:
Pertainym:
strange (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Context examples:
The woman asked her what she did there, but she looked very strangely and only returned a confused and unintelligible answer.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
SIR JAMES OVINGTON’S carriage was waiting without, and in it the Avon family, so tragically separated and so strangely re-united, were borne away to the squire’s hospitable home.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The speed in the meantime had strangely increased.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Heinel found himself at the gates in a moment; but the guards would not let him go in, because he was so strangely clad.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I opened it in his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made in the country from which I had been so strangely delivered.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I may have effected something, or his wildness may have spent itself; but by degrees he struggled less, and began to look at me—strangely at first, then with recognition in his eyes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Alarmed, but not discouraged, she tried it another way; a bolt flew, and she believed herself successful; but how strangely mysterious!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Only for one instant did the master spy glare at this strangely irrelevant inscription.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
At such a distance as that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
