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• It has peculiarly big toenails, but I guess that's the way baby rhinos are.2005 September 6, Adrian Searle, “Fairground distraction”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry big toenail
• In this respect lamb is peculiarly suspectible to deterioration on passing the “sappy” stage.1921, National Wool Grower - Volumes 11-12, page 17. From the entry sappy
• How peculiarly unfortunate that I should have expended so much effort learning navigation and then have B.1903 May 10, Rupert Hughes, “Good Reading for Boys and Girls: The Cruise of the Lakerimmers”, in Clark Howell, editor, The Atlanta…. From the entry mysteriosity
• The first attribute of Falkland Island identity highlighted in virtually all histories is the assertion that the islands feel peculiarly Scottish.2014, Mark Connelly, “Propaganda, Memory and Identity: The Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 1914”, in David Welch, editor…. From the entry Falkland Island
• As such, the Growlery again frustrates what Doublass sees as a peculiarly American obsession with pigeonholing things in terms of race.2006, Sarah Luria, Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry growlery
• Inevitably, the critics came to attack Quebec Catholicism and those who had narrowed it and made it peculiarly “Quebeckish.”1978, Marcel Rioux, Quebec in Question, page 68. From the entry Quebeckish
• They are peculiarly vulnerable to art racketeers.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry trompe l'oeil
• Türkmen embroidery is individual and peculiarly vigorous.1976, Mügül Andrews, Peter Andrews, “Foreword”, in Türkmen Needlework: Dressmaking and Embroidery Among the Türkmen of Iran, Central Asian…. From the entry Türkmen
• In a peculiarly inverted manner he is among the believers in progress—the goal being the undoing of the things done.1949 December, Helmut Kuhn, “[Review of Karl Löwith, Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History]”, in…. From the entry eschaton
• Inspector Meadows was a small man with a ginger head and what I considered a peculiarly irritating manner.1924, Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit. From the entry satellite
• The evolution of energetic, industrious, forthfaring peoples under the peculiarly favourable climatic conditions of north-western Europe is the most important element in that success.2002, Irene Gammel, Making Avonlea. From the entry forthfare
• But kawai might also be the very quality the Japanese respond to in Mr Beckham—and cuteness of a peculiarly Potteresque kind at that.2002 August 31, “Cute”, in The Economist, page 40, column 2. From the entry Potteresque
• From Samarkand, using that peculiarly Russian means of transport, the springless, horse-drawn tarantass, Curzon reached Tashkent by the post road in thirty uncomfortable hours.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 396. From the entry tarantass
• Thus the title of his paper at Royaumont has a Husserlian ring, but a peculiarly Wildian intonation: “L'anthropologie philosophique et la crise des sciences européennes.”1989, James M. Edie, “John Wild and Phenomenology”, in Eugene F. Kaelin, Calvin O. Schrag, editors, American Phenomenology: Origins and…. From the entry Husserlian
• Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "'Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253. From the entry comparatively
• This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52. From the entry New Yorker
• Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39. From the entry cattle
• Marconi's invention is peculiarly gratifying to The Times, which has long made liberal use of wireless telegraphy in its European news service.1909 January 26, “The Triumph of Wireless Telegraphy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry wireless telegraphy
• Of the Ovulidae, the most curious is the "Weaver's-shuttle" ( Radius volva ) , in which the shell is peculiarly beaked at both ends .1908, British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, A Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries, page 15. From the entry weavers' shuttle
• The most peculiarly BBCesque of these publications, however, were the affordable, light pamphlets circulated to the members of listening groups, in advance of a particular broadcast series.2014, Shundana Yusaf, chapter 3, in Broadcasting Buildings: Architecture on the Wireless, 1927-1945, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry BBCesque
• And she gives us the peculiarly Austenish pleasure of watching good, intelligent, and articulate people work their way through much painful error to the relief of shared understanding.1968, Irvin Stock, Mary McCarthy, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry Austenish
• Agrarian difficulties have always had a peculiarly bitter character in the countries where the landlord class differs, either in religion, or nationality, from the bulk of the labourers.1968, “The Congress and the Treaty of Berlin”, in René Albrecht-Carrié, editor, The Concert of Europe (Documentary History of Western…. From the entry Bosnia and Herzegovinan
• They had a way of treating certain wounds which I suppose was in accordance with the latest medical practice, but which was peculiarly horrible to look at.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC. From the entry butter muslin
• His appearance and manner are peculiarly arresting, and as he raised his hand for order the whole audience settled down expectantly to give him a hearing.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry expectantly
• There is some rumour that he is or has been a clergyman; but one or two incidents of his short residence at the Hall struck me as peculiarly unecclesiastical.1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes. From the entry unecclesiastical
• The result was a speech peculiarly unsuited to an international event, to the horror of Sunakites who hoped for "special AI relationship with knobs on" (as one aide put it).2024 July 23, Anne McElvoy, “Clunky Kamala can still take the fight to Trump with vigour”, in Evening Standard, page 16. From the entry Sunakite

Meaning of peculiarly

1. adverb To greater degree than is usual.
2. adverb In a manner that is greater than usual.
3. adverb Strangely, oddly.

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How do you use peculiarly in a sentence?

Peculiarly is used as an adverb. For example: “He has a peculiarly strong accent.”

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“He dresses peculiarly.”

What does peculiarly mean?

Peculiarly means to greater degree than is usual.