(n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
(n.) A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.
(n.) A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.
(n.) An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.
(n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.
(n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is religious freedom in Britain – some would say too much: 26 bishops sit in the House of Lords on a historic quirk.
(2) A quirk of the General Chiropractic Council's rules means that chiropractors who make claims that are incompatible with previous Advertising Standards Authority rulings must be investigated by the regulator.
(3) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(4) The 8,000 –2,000 children and young people over the course of a year and 6,000 older and disabled adults – are users of social care services in Quirk’s borough of Lewisham.
(5) But if Microsoft can iron out some performance quirks around voice recognition and Snap, the decision won't be too hard: it's far easier to glimpse the future potential in the Xbox One, starting with 10 seconds of time and the simple two-word voice command: 'Xbox on.'"
(6) Any quirk in the way a small number of people on our schemes are counted makes little difference.
(7) It could be that grouping makes sense, especially when you think of how very specialist some services are becoming, such as commissioning for dementia care,” says Quirk.
(8) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
(9) Fake or misleading news spreads like wildfire on Facebook because of confirmation bias, a quirk in human psychology that makes us more likely to accept information that conforms to our existing world views.
(10) A detail-rich paint job and enough sounds and quirks are able to convince you, with a touch of the suspension of disbelief, that he is more than just an expensive chunk of plastic.
(11) All are taking on the expansive driving genre introduced by Test Drive Unlimited and reworking it for next-gen hardware, but right now it's difficult to tease out the individual quirks amid all that brushed aluminium and lasciviously winking lens flare.
(12) As she remembers her years at a kind of country boarding school called Hailsham, the quirks of her narration nudge the reader to guess at what she is not telling us.
(13) Brin, who is more sociable than Page, has his own quirks.
(14) Thanks to the labyrinthine quirks of our electoral system, none of this may get in the way of a "win" in 2015.
(15) Comedy While the French were being amused by the subtle quirks of Tati's Monsieur Hulot, the English were clutching their sides at large-breasted women losing their bikinis, and men saying "phwoooar" or "oooh" a lot.
(16) A UK remake is reportedly on the way, which in my opinion is redundant, although it does boast a fine cast including Pauline Quirke and John Challis.
(17) There was also a $5m lawsuit (from Trump, of all quirks, as opposed to the orangutan species).
(18) And this, by a happy quirk of fate, is also Emmanuelle Riva's 86th birthday.
(19) Pancreatic enzyme products are formulated, manufactured, and sold without submitting efficacy or bioavailability data to the Food and Drug Administration because of a quirk in the law.
(20) Economists often concern themselves with distortions created by quirks in the tax code or barriers to trade, but the losses from having an economy operate below full employment dwarf these inefficiencies.
Subterfuge
Definition:
(n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a coalition could break through the inertia and subterfuge now deadlocking the negotiations.
(2) "It is LSE's view that the students were not given enough information to enable informed consent, yet were given enough to put them in serious danger if the subterfuge had been uncovered prior to their departure from North Korea," the university said in an email sent to all staff and students on Saturday.
(3) In my own new novel I hope to contribute in some small way to the subterfuges of what may be England's most secretive literary county.
(4) In Paris, Cahun had played a major part in Georges Bataille 's Contre-Attaque resistance group, and in Jersey she soon instigated an outrageous – not to mention dangerous – game of subterfuge, producing fake letters and tracts advertising unrest among the occupying forces.
(5) Supporters of Cable were also looking to see if they have a case to take the Daily Telegraph to the police or Press Complaints Commission for using false names, addresses and subterfuge to inveigle Liberal Democrat ministers into expressing doubts about some coalition policies.
(6) At a dinner I attended in Krakow, a Polish woman in her 30s said she believed the Smolensk crash to be a tragic accident caused by human error, not divine intervention – a lack of judgment not Russian subterfuge.
(7) But such subterfuges do little to hide a crude reality that Eritreans who have fled are desperate to describe.
(8) The magazine editor also defended the use of subterfuge by media organisations.
(9) Under the terms of the Ipso code the Sunday Mirror has 28 days to respond to the complaint and is expected to argue that the subterfuge used is justified by the public interest in exposing Newmark.
(10) Factitious hypoglycemia, on the other hand, results from deliberate subterfuge by the patient and may thus elude proper diagnosis for some time.
(11) Allardyce is a man who, as the recordings obtained by subterfuge show , can be lured by promises of cash into making unguarded jibes about his peers and colleagues.
(12) In sometimes choosing not to answer simple questions, Cookson has been criticised as a career politician when he strives to be a genuine cycling man who shares the overwhelming distaste for corruption and subterfuge.
(13) The talks – which ended in disarray after the US, working with a small group of 25 countries, tried to ram through an agreement that other developing countries mostly rejected – were marked by subterfuge, passion and chaos.
(14) Proud to be a "provincial" writer, in his novel Kept (2006) Taylor begins with a bravura passage describing his home county: "A land of winding backroads and creaking carts and windmills, a land of flood, and eels and elvers and all that comes from water, a land of silence and subterfuge, of things not said but only whispered, where much is kept secret which would be better laid open to scrutiny."
(15) In Kim, people die rather casually; engage in deceit and subterfuge, and tell each other fabulous stories.
(16) Simon Ringrose, specialist prosecutor in the CPS’s Special Crime Division, said: “Mr Mahmood portrayed himself as the master of subterfuge and as the ‘King of the Sting’, but on this occasion it is he and Mr Smith who have been exposed.
(17) Beyond this, there was the oddity that the subterfuge-laden missive originally emerged in the Uxbridge constituency office of Mr Mitchell's deputy, John Randall, which made it doubly destabilising.
(18) The Labour party was furious with the Tories because it believes their opponents, whose general election campaign is being run by the controversial Australian Lynton Crosby, stepped over an unofficial mark to embark on subterfuge and entrapment.
(19) The 36-year-old, who held the position of managing director at Leeds until April, has not been charged with a criminal offence and denies all the allegations against him, saying he may have been lured to Dubai through “subterfuge”.
(20) But the party felt that using material obtained by subterfuge from "students" was unacceptable.