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• s  beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves
• s  unique or specific to a person or thing or category
  a peculiar bond of sympathy between them
  an expression peculiar to Canadians
  rights peculiar to the rich
• s  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
• s  characteristic of one only; distinctive or special
  the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney

• The trouble was not necessarily the engineering, or even the peculiar design, which looked fit to split firewood.
• The Queen is acutely aware that the continued success of the monarchy depends on the careful nurturing of popular consent and that a peculiar danger of being the best-known .
• Standing in the center of Kanpur in an all-white uniform, Ram Karan Singh explains the two peculiar drawbacks and one peculiar advantage of being a traffic policeman in this city .

• curious
• funny
• odd
• queer
• rum
• rummy
• singular
• particular
• special

News & Articles

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• Elements: It’s not nuts to love pecans
  Pecans are peculiar to Mexico and the United States, and like other members of the hickory family, they are not a nut. No, it’s a drupe, the botanists insist.
  June 12, 2013 - The Buffalo News
• The White Sox need Winning Ugly II
  No, I'm not referencing the one hour and ten minute fog delay, the first since 1996 at US Cellular, that held up the game in the third inning. The fog was peculiar -- it was so thick that I could no longer see Melky Cabrera standing in left field from the press box -- but the weirdest occurrence of the evening was that the White Sox finally found their offense.
  June 12, 2013 - Philly.com
• Peculiar art festival to feature regional displays
  Peculiar woman Natalie Thomas of the Potter’s Obsessions, shows patrons how she begins a pottery piece at the wheel at the 2012 Clara Brierly Festival of the Arts. This year’s festival, hosted by the Downtown Peculiar Arts and Culture District, runs Friday, June 7, through Sunday, June 9, in downtown Peculiar, and will feature an array of art displays, wine tastings and live entertainment.
  June 7, 2013 - The Cass County Democrat Missourian

Quotes

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• George Washington in American Enterprise Institute
  Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure,Washington wrote, the morals required for republican government depend, for most people, on religious cultivation.
• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  He made the peculiar argument that the best way to stop companies from shipping jobs overseas is to give more tax cuts to companies that ship jobs overseas,Obama said. "More tax cuts for job outsourcers? That's what Senator McCain proposed...
• Samir Soni in Sify
  It's a peculiar kind of moral evolution that disregards the democratic process, and inures solely to the benefit of child rapists. It was such a jarring decision from the Court that my opponent, Sen. Obama, immediately and to his credit expressed... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ CBS News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/07/01/politics/fromtheroad/entry4223612.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHucIdo8daAFV5aAgOFoI347EdMBw Jul 1, 2008 73041 97750 peculiarity When I heard the role I knew I immediately wanted to do it. And so what if he's gay? It's about time we as a country and in the entertainment business stopped looking at homosexuality as a peculiarity. I was a model, so I know a lot of gays. My...