Synonym: bizarre, characteristic, curious, distinctive, eccentric, odd, queer, representative, special, strange, typical, unusual, weird. Antonym: common. Similar words: speculate, speculator, speculation, familiar, auxiliary, unfamiliar, secular, molecule. Meaning: [pɪ'kjuːlɪə(r)] adj. 1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected 2. unique or specific to a person or thing or category 3. markedly different from the usual 4. characteristic of one only; distinctive or special.
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91) This is a peculiar anomaly in that the Transfer Regulations currently exclude undertakings in the nature of commercial ventures.
92) He enacted a policy of peculiar ugliness over the attempt to plant a forest of crosses at the very gates of Auschwitz.
93) Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce
94) Helen watched my grandmother with a peculiar horror, for my grandmother had abandoned all attempts to make herself presentable.
95) Instead, each planet had its own peculiar machinery which was related to but not integrally connected to a universal system.
96) It is now believed that the peculiar properties of water are due to what is known as hydrogen bonding.
97) It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
98) Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Ambrose Bierce
99) But it seems a peculiar policy, foreign affairs by tingle, sending young men off to die in a frisson impossible.
100) It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family - people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement.
101) Just footballers, that very peculiar animal much prone to foot in the mouth.
102) She coped well with the peculiar pressures of being only an honorary man in a male world.
103) What is peculiar, even unique compared with other departments of government, is a special brand of stuffiness.
104) But the peculiar ape is not immune to those principles.
105) Gaudi captures that peculiar living response which cuts across a square campus lawn and traces a graceful curving shortcut.
106) The origins of Gironella's peculiar assemblages lie in his childhood.
107) A peculiar habit, or a novel structure, opens a world of opportunity that can be exploited in a myriad ways.
108) This is a very peculiar but decorative plant which in submersed form differs conspicuously from the other members of the family.
109) From parents, children can acquire habits and tastes that are peculiar if not exclusive to a particular class.
110) As I gazed around the orchard the sun was coming up and there was that peculiar smell of the Normandy countryside.
111) River and sea now coexist by the rules of a peculiar estuarine current.
112) To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known.
113) It is the peculiar nature of the bureaucracy that sensible initiatives like this arouse great resentment and efforts at evasion.
114) Such ambiguities, of course, are not peculiar to recent history.
115) Something in the loch has produced some very peculiar sonar traces on some very sophisticated equipment, and that something demands explanation.
116) At latitudes greater than about thirty degrees, impact craters have a very peculiar appearance never seen on the Moon.
117) Corinth's peculiar position created two prosperous harbours, Lechaion in the west- and Kenchreai in the east.
118) Of all the peculiar effects of musical tragedy,[www.Sentencedict.com] the most remarkable is the coexistence of opposite impressions.
119) He held a peculiar scientific belief relating to this matter.
120) Would it now get about that Mrs Markham was a little peculiar or, worse still, that she had some assignation?
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