(a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
(a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.
(n.) Counterfeit money.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few people might have wasted time trying to define Conchita's identity or worrying if she is one of "us", but the majority saw her for what she is: an ambassador for diversity, and a beacon of light – no doubt – to our queer cousins on the continent.
(2) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
(3) The interview when William F Buckley called Vidal 'queer'.
(4) Too straight, white and corporate: why some queer people are skipping SF Pride Read more Both had lost partners: Povilat to liver disease, Persinger to a heart attack.
(5) "It represents senseless acts of violence against trans and queer bodies beyond the historical lens," says Cassils.
(6) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
(7) It has served as a truly welcoming queer space for gay people, straight people, trans people and just about everyone else since it opened in 2009.
(8) Lee had been here before – on queer street against John Jackson and Matt Korobov, each time pulling out a spectacular winning burst for stunning victories.
(9) We can only assume the MPAA considers the lives of queer old people as a threat to young, impressionable minds.
(10) Even though I desperately wanted to go, and I’ve known I was queer since I was a child, I matriculated at a Christian college at my mother’s request.
(11) I shot a queer forestry camp recently and it was one of the best days of my life.” LGBT: San Francisco is published by Reel Art Press (£40).
(12) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
(13) François Bikoro, the editor of the popular (and populist) Cameroonian weekly L'Anecdote – which, like a number of publications across the continent, has published lists of people it accuses of being gay, accompanied by headlines like "The Queers Are Among Us" – reckons circulation has increased from 5,000 to "more than 20,000" since "we began dealing with homosexuality".
(14) Dramatists as successful as John Osborne and Simon Gray would regularly complain that you had to be queer if you wanted to get on in the English theatre.
(15) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
(16) Fellow artist Callie L is working on an essay that views One Direction’s performance of Where Do Broken Hearts Go on The X Factor with Ronnie Wood through the queer theory of the late American LGBT activist Vito Russo.
(17) Later, they shoot a queer-basher, which provoked angry outcries at some gay festival screenings and loud cheers at others.
(18) Its first production was the multi-award-winning Queer as Folk, which Guardian critics named the 13th best drama series of all time.
(19) Pride really should be for queer folks,” said Amy Sueyoshi, a lifelong San Francisco resident, who identifies as genderqueer.
(20) Photograph: Paul Grace When it comes to spaces for queer girls, Pitch Slap!
Unwell
Definition:
(a.) Not well; indisposed; not in good health; somewhat ill; ailing.
(a.) Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is quickly established that he suffered a heart attack at work and has recently claimed employment and support allowance (ESA), which is an income replacement benefit for those too unwell or disabled to work, or look for work.
(2) It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
(3) We have a high number of A&E attendances over this time that are due to issues that could have been avoided had people sought advice at the first sign of illness.” The Stay Well This Winter campaign will use TV, radio and social media to encourage people to wrap up warm and consult a pharmacist as soon as they feel unwell rather than waiting.
(4) Furthermore, patients seeking aesthetic surgery are generally healthy and well, unlike patients who seek medical care for disease; surgeons must exercise extraordinary care to ensure that rejuventation surgery does not result in an unwell patient.
(5) In later life the star had to give up drinking due to ill health but the greatest acting triumph of his later years was playing another notorious drunk, and O'Toole drinking buddy, Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
(6) As an alcoholic in long-term sobriety – on Christmas Day 1991, he was distracted from throwing himself off Tower Bridge by a friend offering him a glass of sherry, and soon entered recovery – Ferguson said he would not make jokes at the expense of the unwell.
(7) He has now told the Daily Telegraph: “I was not unwell – I have not had heart palpitations - but I was getting increasingly terrible pain in my shoulder, my back and so I was suffering from neuralgic pain.
(8) If they have been taken and the person feels unwell, they should consult their doctor.” 'Hopeful' study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015 Read more MMS is sold by the self-styled Genesis II Church of Health and Healing , which is officially based in the Dominican Republic and claims a UK outpost in Rotherhithe, south-east London.
(9) His first public appearance since 3 September, when he attended a concert in Pyongyang with his wife, appeared to confirm claims that Kim has been unwell.
(10) Scudamore himself and the chairman, Anthony Fry, who is currently unwell, are the only members of the Premier League's board.
(11) However, the sources said they feared China’s leaders were playing a calculated waiting game, attempting to ride out a storm of international criticism until Liu was genuinely too unwell to be moved from the hospital in north-east China where he is being treated under guard.
(12) If their temperature is 37.5°C or higher, or they begin to feel unwell in any way, they are advised to call a dedicated Public Health England contact immediately for advice.
(13) A nurse who faces being struck off over a botched Ebola screening at Heathrow airport has said it is “preposterous” that she would have concealed knowledge that Pauline Cafferkey was unwell.
(14) If you have taken illegal drugs, or if you know someone who has become unwell after taking illegal drugs and needs urgent medical care, call 999 immediately and ask for the ambulance service.” Police are urging anyone in possession of the pills to hand them in to prevent further deaths or harm.
(15) Some of the eyewitnesses gave evidence at Mair’s trial, but one became so unwell as a consequence of what she saw that she could not attend.
(16) They just released her the next day.” Wollaston rightly highlights the problem of holding mentally unwell children in police cells but experience suggests it is not just young people with a history of mental health problems who are vulnerable.
(17) In some patients who have shown hydroxydicarboxylic aciduria when unwell there is reduced 3H2O production from [9,10-3H]myristic and [9,10-3H]palmitic acids by intact cultured fibroblasts but normal 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase activities in disrupted cells.
(18) Klebsiella pneumoniae with an unusual antibiotic susceptibility pattern was isolated from blood cultures of seven unwell premature babies on the Special Care Baby Unit.
(19) "Faced for much of the time with a chronic shortage of beds, community teams are forced to manage ever more unwell patients at home with dwindling resources.
(20) A more consistent pattern of precedence of change was obtained for mood and cognition: negative cognitive style predicted changes in both mood measures and feeling unwell predicted changes in negative automatic thoughts.