curiously
IPA: kjˈʊriʌsɫi
adverb
- In a curious manner; with curiosity; inquisitively.
- Oddly; in a strange or unexpected way.
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Examples of "curiously" in Sentences
- He is curiously mute on the subject.
- The checkpoint was curiously asymmetrical.
- It's also a curiously bellicose edit summary.
- Curiously, it isn't tempting in the slightest.
- Then his matter was curiously cold and impassive.
- The curiously named streets belie the area's history.
- Such is the curiously disoriented mentality of the newcomer.
- The eggcase curiously resembles the shells of extinct ammonites.
- The answers are in the back and, curiously, indexed alphabetically.
- Hortense gave me a knowing look, an expression curiously woman-to-woman.
- The secretary gestured to Athen’s office, her expression curiously smug.
- Updates, 11/23: David Lowery: For all its empyrean visuals, I found The Fountain curiously earthbound.
- And small children — especially if beautiful, blonde, and under five — sometimes get a pass, though they are liable to appear in curiously fey and stylized ways.
- So it was no surprise that this upwelling of speaking truth to power would meet with organized resistance from a front group disguised behind a name curiously appropriate to the task: the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE.
- And as the Roman Consuls held this to be the principal praise of their glory, they had this title curiously sculptured in marble on the Quirinal and in the forum of Trajan --- "Most powerful gift in a Prince is liberality [12]."
- Foucault's quote, curiously, is exactly applicable to the situation between Mr. Windschuttle and his postmodern rivals: he is a person from a strong cultural tradition, having trouble understanding the language of another culture's logic - in other words, trying to apprehend "a culture ... that does not distribute the multiplicity of existing things into any of the categories that make it possible for us to name, speak and think."