peculiarly
/pɪˈkjuljɚli/ adverb C2- To greater degree than is usual. · He has a peculiarly strong accent.· This racehorse is peculiarly fast.
- In a manner that is greater than usual.
- Strangely, oddly. · His nose is peculiarly bent.
- In a strange or perverse manner; strangely. · He dresses peculiarly.
- Such as to be strange or odd. · Peculiarly, his hat is on upside-down.
- Acting in strange or perverse way. · Peculiarly, he left through the window.· Peculiarly, he sat bolt upright and shouted "Geronimo!" whenever John Wayne appeared.
- Strongly associated with; in a manner that is peculiar or restricted to some person or place.
- Mostly or solely associated with. · Having red hair and freckles is a characteristic that is peculiarly Northern European.
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Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables?” she said in a peculiarly clear, sweet voice.
These are the kind of little things which please her Ladyship, and it is a sort of attention which I conceive myself peculiarly bound to pay.”
Gardiner it had a peculiarly strong attraction.
She soon learnt that they were indebted for their present good understanding to the efforts of his aunt, who _did_ call on him in her return through London, and there relate her journey to Longbourn, its motive, and the substance of her conversation with Elizabeth; dwelling emphatically on every expression of the latter, which, in her Ladyship’s apprehension, peculiarly denoted her perverseness and assurance, in the belief that such a relation must assist her endeavours to obtain that promise from her nephew which _she_ had refused to give.
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