Synonyms

1. inexplicably
2. oddly
3. curiously

Sentence Examples

1. In such a party, Harriet would be rather a dead weight than otherwise but for the poor girl herself, it seemed a peculiarly cruel necessity that was to be placing her in such a state of unmerited punishment.
2. Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.
3. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
4. Elton, though she had always considered the ball as peculiarly for her.
5. All Tom could note of him were a bull neck, a peculiarly small ear, and glossy black hair.
6. In youth, the tulip-tree, or Liriodendron Tulipferum, the most magnificent of American foresters, has a trunk peculiarly smooth, and often rises to a great height without lateral branches but, in its riper age, the bark becomes gnarled and uneven, while many short limbs make their appearance on the stem.
7. Harriet Smith might think herself not unworthy of being peculiarly, exclusively, passionately loved by Mr.
8. Her body would feel peculiarly light for a minute afterwards, but there were no other side-effects.
9. No observing person can have failed to notice the peculiarly deserted air of the town, from about eight until ten on the morning of every Sabbath.
10. The woman was better off she might have the assistance of fine clothes, and the privilege of bashfulness, but the man had only his own good sense to depend on and when she considered how peculiarly unlucky poor Mr.