curiously

[ US /ˈkjʊɹiəsɫi/ ]
[ UK /kjˈʊɹɪəsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. with curiosity
    the baby looked around curiously
  2. in a manner differing from the usual or expected
    he's behaving rather peculiarly
    had a curiously husky voice
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How To Use curiously In A Sentence

  • Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
  • The animating idea remains curiously unplumbed. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Dalgliesh thought that the design would have been more successful if the fagade had been balanced by extended bays, but either inspiration or money had ran out and the house looked curiously unfinished. She Closed Her Eyes
  • The youngster examines minutely curiously: The flavour of that drumstick how?
  • Curiously, while sperm whales unquestionably have teeth, recent molecular data and a reanalysis of their anatomy has suggested that they may be highly derived mysticetes.
  • Church's shoulders to reach to his ancles, and curiously inwrought with figures of birds, beasts and flowers. Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
  • He was a tall, coltish, bespectacled young man, curiously lovable.
  • Curiously, there was an anticipatory quality to her voice -- as though she had thrown a conversational bone. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Curiously, her mother never saw it either and died at a ripe old age with that particular ambition unfulfilled.
  • They linger, gazing curiously at the portraits and asking questions.
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