queer

How To Use queer In A Sentence

• What we do have here is a rather queer looking creature with a faceless Charlie Brown head, duck legs, two jointless yet pliable arms, and tentacles.
• The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italian and the Teuton parted company on their way from The Unseen World and Other Essays
• It was something about how queer religions may be -- he was thinking of the juramentado. Terry A Tale of the Hill People
• She gave him a queer sidelong glance, and it seemed that her voice suddenly became too light, too careless.
• I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, “cloggy” feel of the long-damp pages. The House on the Borderland
• Of course, he could not pull it off, and in the times since when he did need it, it was too late, for his first failure had queered it. Chapter 9
• Queer how the echo of Cutty's description of the drums calling a jehad -- a holy war -- should adapt itself to that The Drums of Jeopardy
• The term 'transgendered', like the term 'queer', is a term conceived broadly enough to potentially include medieval people: a certain percentage of persons who describe themselves with this term live either in-between genders or in some other complex relationship with the binary of male and female. In the Middle
• Well, let me tell you, I have been in very genteel society, without feeling any thing so human, so catholic, so pantheistical, (in the right sense,) as I did in making one of that queer company. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• And it leads me to think that the notion of queer used here is strongly associated with neophilia and neophobia, ie degree of attraction to novelty.