(superl.) Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
(superl.) Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
(superl.) Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.
(superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.
(superl.) Backward; slow.
(superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
(adv.) Strangely.
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange.
(v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.
(v. i.) To wonder; to be astonished.
Example Sentences:
(1) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(2) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(3) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(4) Nonetheless some strange theories have been floated.
(5) The effect on milk yield, milk leucocyte concentration, and milk prolactin of dominance rank and introduction of "strange" cows into a group was studied.
(6) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(7) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(8) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(9) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.
(10) When you ask for the phone numbers or names or addresses they are, strangely, unavailable."
(11) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(12) Training grounds during a World Cup turn out to be a strange little bubble of a world.
(13) I was an immigrant, although a reluctant one, and I was living in a huge strange country that resembled the America I'd encountered in books and in films so much less than I had expected.
(14) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(15) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
(16) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(17) 12.24am BST The Labor leader has seen the decision by the Greens to back in Tony Abbott in reintroducing fuel tax indexation in this budget, but strangely he has not seen their decision to oppose the deficit tax, even though it was announced at the same time.
(18) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(19) To explain these contentions, the history, strengths, and limits of reductionist thinking are discussed, and aspects of chaos science, such as the butterfly effect and strange attractors, are described.
(20) Strangely enough, we continue to endure retrograde policy approaches that are more likely to further entrench a sense of disempowerment among Aboriginal people, rather than acknowledge and enable individual empowerment.
Suspicious
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
(a.) Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.
(a.) Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; questionable; as, an author of suspicious innovations; suspicious circumstances.
Example Sentences:
(1) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(2) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
(3) Spain's tax office is conveniently, some could say suspiciously, underfunded.
(4) Early biopsy of suspicious lesions followed by amputation of the digit in those proving positive is the treatment of choice.
(5) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
(6) Two infants with previously abnormal or suspicious FAT, OCT, and intrapartum fetal heart tracings were stillborn.
(7) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
(8) Thirty-six patients underwent biopsy of clinically suspicious lesions of the mucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract.
(9) Management of female patients includes careful inspection of the vulva with each full-skin or gynecologic examination, followed by biopsy of any suspicious lesion.
(10) Nearly 50% showed up with involvement of fixated and suspicious lymphnodes.
(11) One case classified as suspicious for malignancy by cytologic examination could be identified as cirrhotic nodule by further investigations.
(12) An area of translucence around a dense zone, appearing more clearly with traction, is suspicious.
(13) Bronchoscopic examination revealed endobronchial tumor or suspicious lesion in 63.2 percent cases.
(14) inflammation or regeneration) a "suspicious" cervical smear with a polyploid DNA-distribution pattern may reverse to normal cervical epithelium after normal conditions are restored.
(15) The standards undergirding a suspicious activity report are defined as: " Observed behavior reasonably indicative of preoperational planning related to terrorism or other criminal activity ."
(16) The patient's sexual partner was examined colposcopically, and no suspicious lesions were seen.
(17) The midwife in the maternity unit can look at the tracing and ask the patient to come if the tracing is insufficient or suspicious.
(18) But Cleveland city hall released out a statement that read: "Media reports of multiple calls to the Cleveland police reporting suspicious activity and the mistreatment of women at 2207 Seymour are false."
(19) I’m desperately sorry, says head who hired paedophile William Vahey Read more Investigators in the UK have already established that while Vahey was teaching in London from 2009 to 2013, teachers on four different trips reported his suspicious behaviour with pupils to the school.
(20) According to Sussex police, explosives experts investigated what was initially deemed a suspicious item discarded by the man and carried out a small controlled explosion.