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bizarre
/ bɪˈzɑː /
adjective
- odd or unusual, esp in an interesting or amusing way
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Derived Forms
- biˈzarreness, noun
- biˈzarrely, adverb
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Other Words From
- bi·zarrely adverb
- bi·zarreness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bizarre1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bizarre1
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Example Sentences
Facing removal from a House committee for her elevation of various bizarre conspiracy theories, Greene spoke for 10 minutes Thursday in an effort to distance herself from those comments.
So it seems bizarre that she’s not fronting a show that is primarily political.
I loved how strange it was that each body was different, each family was different, and that America has this completely bizarre relationship with death.
I think most people in the country think that it is bizarre.
It’s just completely bizarre and unfair that people, and you’re going to run the Department of Education, you’re going to run the Department of Education and got no problem with it.
Ethan Hawke, an executive producer who also helped write several episodes, disappeared into the bizarre character of Brown, and his acting nomination is richly deserved.
Albert Einstein’s mind reinvented space and time, foretelling a universe so bizarre and grand that it has challenged the limits of human imagination.
The fossil is “completely bizarre,” says Paulina Jiménez-Huidobro, a paleontologist at the University of Bonn in Germany not involved with this research, noting the teeth may have been used to “slice and dice” crustaceans, shell and all.
The Toronto Raptors’ start to the 2020-21 NBA season has been bizarre.
If you know anything about Lebowitz, and you should, it has probably already struck you that streaming television is a bizarre place to find her.
In a bizarre matchup, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor came for the 20-year-old singer this past July in Ibiza.
And likewise the Easter bunny, a bizarre pagan myth if ever one there was.
In a bizarre twist to proceedings, Miss Manners sought to have her £30 cab fare from her Kensington flat to court refunded.
Both heroines are women, but they offer a pretty bizarre dichotomy for girls: Ice queen or ditzy princess.
“I thought it was quite bizarre and kind of sick,” Dr. Grenci said of being introduced to the subculture in 1979.
The source added that the staffers “hated” the bizarre alleged practice.
“Bizarre imaginings by Mr. du Pont have also been recounted by athletes who trained with Team Foxcatcher,” wrote The Times.
To make it even more bizarre, Shumlin has plans to turn Vermont into the only state with single-payer health insurance.
There was little consolation to be had from this revelation except a bizarre sense of personal privilege.
The mayor responded defiantly with a kind of military pageant that was truly bizarre for such a secretive organization.
“The idea of Mitch McConnell as the Majority Leader is too bizarre and dark to contemplate [right now],” she said.
It is a really bizarre feeling to perform for like five people.
Their inevitable divorce was messy, bitter, and packed with bizarre occurrences.
Mingled with all the bizarre zoology, however, are many impressively accurate and detailed descriptions.
Some of his observations about animals appear equally bizarre.
The world in which a J. Edgar Hoover movie exists before an MLK movie is utterly bizarre to me.
These “Book of Eli” deserts are where the imagined, however bizarre or hideous, can turn undeniably real.
Was part of the attraction to the project shining a light in this bizarre blight on America?
“The conversation with her was just bizarre,” Crish recalled.
The San Francisco Chronicle called it "choppy and flawed," CNN "a bizarre failure."
He had a rare gift of inventing words and phrases, and all sorts of bizarre expressions, that linger in the mind.
Several small kiosks at the corners and sides of the terrace give to the whole a somewhat bizarre though tasty appearance.
The innocent creature was sound asleep at the foot of a stand loaded with vases of bizarre form.
Yet in the choice of words, one may search for the bizarre and unusual rather than for the truly picturesque.
Among these wretches, almost wholly in tatters, some were seen in bizarre accoutrement.
He thought suddenly of the bizarre performances of the thing men call Fate.
Bierce, paradoxically, combined the bizarre in substance, the severely restrained and compressed in form.
People, he meditated, find foolish and bizarre means of comforting themselves when overwhelmed by great tragedy.
Bizarre turned his head and saw a child that answered in every respect to the countess's description.
Rather than see his son weep, Bizarre would have given him his crown; his affection rendered him powerless.
Fifteen months after these memorable words, Bizarre expired of languor and exhaustion.
She looked away from him, around the studio, with its bizarre decorations, and shuddered.
Thoughts of body-snatching and bizarre surgery flitted through his mind to be instantly dismissed.
They resembled the bizarre and evil figures of the Guignol that used to haunt my dreams in childhood.
It is superfluous to point out the grotesque and bizarre effect of this human face in metal.
Under these conditions such inspiration as it may receive is liable to be of an uncouth and bizarre nature.
The bizarre youth exercised the same fascination over the work-girls as he did over the young ladies.
We subject our free judgment to its despotic opinions, our feelings to its bizarre customs, and our will to its seductions.
But while there should be nothing bizarre in our method of furnishing, rooms should reflect the individuality of their owners.
They had lots of bizarre stunts that year, like running a pig called Pigasus for the presidential nomination.
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