quirky
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“Gregory has always been the more grounded, measured type. And then Janine is naturally more whimsical, optimistic and quirky, so she carried the bigger, more expressive visual in the moment,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
They are adorable despite their quirky physique—square in the front, round in the back—or maybe because of it.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Children often learn the order of the planets in our Solar System using quirky memory phrases like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos."
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
Reed went on to write, act, and become a quirky and incisive film critic.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The engineers could be a quirky lot, often brusque, temperamental, or authoritarian.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing quirky
40 SAT words Beginning with "Q"
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q
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