An account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
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Examples for "curious "
Examples for "curious "
1 But there's nothing curious about the crisis facing the capital's rental market.
2 In fact, I'm really quite curious to observe what might happen here.
3 Well, the answer to that is easy: I'm curious without being judgmental.
4 If they don't find it particularly curious , I certainly do, he said.
5 But before anyone could respond to the man's question, something curious happened.
1 Having said that, of course, reality-myreality-hadgotten rather odd of late.
2 So, too, the lauding that follows the odd decent result in Europe.
3 The law says Britain will leave the European Union in 70 - odd days.
4 Sounds a bit odd , of course, but the whole situation is odd .
5 The 700 - odd mostly full-time production workers will be reassigned, the paper said.
1 People have long noticed, however, that some peculiar things happen in videoconferencing.
2 The lack of social and political change in Ireland is most peculiar .
3 New Yorkers are used to the sight of people doing peculiar things.
4 Her peculiar way of saying some words would just be an accent.
5 The nails are fixed in the soles in quite a peculiar pattern.
1 I wrote this article about the word ' queer ' in the paper today.
2 Artist and queer rights advocate Jamiee Stockman-Young said the issue was complex.
3 Does queer art, some ask, refer to a specific school of protest?
4 For queer and transgender Pakistanis, however, the risks are far more ubiquitous.
5 He spoke in a queer , hard voice; and instantly left the room.
1 But in a Europe of nation states this represents a singular challenge.
2 Objectives: This report demonstrates a singular case of subcutaneous administration of n-hexane.
3 The address was written in a singular hand; in large, print-looking letters.
4 Sleep is widely recognized as essential, but without a clear singular function.
5 This resemblance is one of the most singular things in natural history.
1 It seems bizarre how far North Korea is prepared to push China.
2 Either way, it was far too bizarre for James to think about.
3 More damaging information has also come to light about Ford's bizarre behaviour.
4 It's the birth of a spotted hyena, however, that is particularly bizarre .
5 I said nothing, assuming that this was just a bizarre rhetorical question.
1 He said, 'An issue of rum would not come amiss, Mr Stirling.'
2 The burden was no longer his, and the rum was very good.
3 We were immersed in plans and strategy, more than in the rum .
4 The rum though so small in quantity was of the greatest service.
5 The factor give him soup from the pot and a little rum .
1 Which sounds rummy , considering the pounding I used to give and take.
2 Afterward, they read or watched television or played gin rummy or chess.
3 And I was hoping maybe we could play some gin rummy tonight.
4 You know, there was a kind of rummy something about his manner.
5 Three men sat on folding chairs around a card table playing rummy .
Arousing or provoking laughter.
Другие значения термина "funny" 1 He told funny stories about selling real estate; he asked good questions.
2 Donald Dewar said, 'This should be interesting' in that funny Donaldish way.
3 Nothing had happened yet, in Ireland-is that a funny thing to say?
4 The bit is really quite funny , particularly for an 80s computer commercial.
5 I'd have to work quick.' She added, 'It's not funny at all.
6 The novel is an often disturbing, often funny and always epic work.
7 Sure funny he'd leave without even tryin' to get in the house.
8 The little china animals sat in many funny groups on the mantelpiece.
9 Let no one suggest that Good Behaviour by Molly Keane is funny .
10 It's funny , the things that become priorities in a time of crisis.
11 But today the house still had that funny empty feel to it.
12 And he really was serious; he was just very funny about it.
13 And you know it's funny ; almost every one of them said, Oh.
14 His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable.
15 She thought this extremely funny and kidded her friend about it often.
16 In fact, especially if it looks funny , that might be something new.
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