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peculiar English

Meaning peculiar meaning

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peculiar

When something is peculiar, it is out of the ordinary or is unusual. The girl there standing in the crowd of boys there looks rather peculiar.

peculiar

(= curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, singular) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected a curious hybrid accent her speech has a funny twang they have some funny ideas about war had an odd name the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves something definitely queer about this town what a rum fellow singular behavior (= particular, special) unique or specific to a person or thing or category the particular demands of the job has a particular preference for Chinese art a peculiar bond of sympathy between them an expression peculiar to Canadians rights peculiar to the rich the special features of a computer my own special chair characteristic of one only; distinctive or special the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S. — R.B.Taney markedly different from the usual a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman — Virginia Woolf

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Simple sentences

Georgian seems to be a very peculiar language. It must be difficult to learn it.
The odd custom is peculiar to the region.
This is a custom peculiar to Japan.
This custom is peculiar to Japan.
This milk has a peculiar taste.
This milk has a peculiar smell.
That way of speaking is peculiar to people in this part of the country.
A turkey is a large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries, has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
The man who lives next to Tom is quite peculiar.
You're a peculiar girl.
You're a peculiar girl, Mary.
Every nation has its peculiar character.
Feathers are peculiar to birds.
For instance, bowing is peculiar to us, the Japanese.
The plants are peculiar to the district.
This is a weakness peculiar to young people.
This style of cooking is peculiar to China.
Language is peculiar to man.
He is very peculiar in his behavior.
Tom is a very peculiar person.
Constructed languages either are simplified as much as possible, or their grammar lacks the harmony peculiar to natural languages. Both disadvantages emasculate the language.
Tom's peculiar attitude on the matter doesn't spring from any one cause.

Movie subtitles

Not long afterwards, Elsalill had a peculiar dream.
All anyone knows is that Mr. West left in the company of a very peculiar gentleman.
You're a peculiar person.
Dr. Pierce, I have a rather peculiar request to make.
This is a very peculiar thing for one gentleman to say to another. but as a matter of fact. you're the one thing in the world I really love.
Well, it seems to me that that box we dug up today, with the very peculiar gentleman, over there, is the only find we've made in the past two months that'll bring this expedition any medals from the British Museum.
This seems so formal under these peculiar circumstances.
Quite peculiar.
I wonder what causes that peculiar effect.
You're a peculiar chap.
Have you any peculiar characteristics when you're creating?
Does he do peculiar things?
It's a peculiar thing about this place.. thereseemsto be somethingherethat stimulates the autobiographical impulse.
But running a sanitarium calls for a man with peculiar talents.
That's a good question. I gave him a thorough examination and discovered something peculiar.
Not long afterwards, Elsalill had a peculiar dream. She thought she saw her dead foster sister standing before her.
Your servant. Don't you think that Heep is rather a peculiar partner for Mr. Wickfield?
And as for the accounts, well they seem very peculiar.
They're a peculiar breed!
I've got the most peculiar talents of any doctor you ever met.
Well, that's a peculiar question.
Why that's a peculiar coincidence. I'm bound there, too.
HOW PECULIAR OF YOU.
THAT'S THE SAME PECULIAR TYPE OF ENVELOPE.
HE'S A PECULIAR CHARACTER.
This other guy must have a really peculiar figure.
There may be some who will regret that a man of your peculiar talents.. shouldbecutoff soearlyinlife.
That's peculiar.
You know, you got some pretty peculiar ideas for a deputy sheriff.
So I'll start by telling you that I have a. very peculiar hobby.
I'll say one thing. The war makes the most peculiar widows.

News and current affairs

Deterrence - which works by basic human nature, not through some arcane construct peculiar to the Cold War - can be brought to bear here.
To be taught models that began by assuming that unemployment didn't exist seemed a peculiar place to begin.
To many, both in and outside of Greece, this stance was peculiar: billions had been spent saving big banks, but evidently saving a country of eleven million people was taboo!
The ECB's stance is peculiar.
Apart from peculiar hairstyles (the balding Berlusconi has his head painted), the new populists have several things in common.
France responded with calls for monetary reform that would end the peculiar role of the dollar and tried to revive the largely discredited gold standard.
The violence of British football hooligans, for example, reflects a peculiar nostalgia for war.
Involving the people and providing for peaceful conflict resolution may require institutions peculiar to the region and its history.
But the peculiar way in which SDRs were adopted limited their usefulness.
This was peculiar, even at the time.
And, in the US, a peculiar alliance of Jewish hardliners and evangelical Christians, who believe that all Jews must eventually return to the Holy Land and convert to Christianity, has become the main base of support for Israel.
Only for reasons that are peculiar to Russia, his is a liberalism that dare not speak its name.
Of course, the patent system is itself a prize system, albeit a peculiar one: the prize is temporary monopoly power, implying high prices and restricted access to the benefits that can be derived from the new knowledge.
Instead, a crippling malaise has engulfed the Kingdom, as Saudi Arabia's peculiar inertia has produced idle talk of reform that cannot mask the realities of stagnation.
The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.
Why should emerging-market countries' central banks undertake this peculiar financial intermediation, which represents a major cost, as the yield of private funds is higher than that of reserves?
PRINCETON - Germany's general election in September and the prolonged formation of a new government since then have highlighted a peculiar development.
JERUSALEM - Israel has been welcoming some rather peculiar visitors of late.
Today, most of the world's pencils are produced in China - an economy that is a peculiar mix of private entrepreneurship and state direction.
But he has been maneuvered into a peculiar dilemma.
But to omit a neighbor like Israel, a Syrian client like Lebanon, or a patron like Iran would be peculiar - and inviting all of them would be a formula for chaos.
Their peculiar merger has been evident in many recent US wars in the Middle East and Africa.

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