Synonyms for quirk
quirk

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1. oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchetnoun

   a strange attitude or habit

   Synonyms:
   rarity, quarter note, homoeroticism, gayness, curio, hook, oddness, curiosity, quirkiness, homosexuality, queerness, oddity, crotchet, peculiarity, oddment, homosexualism

2. quirkverb

   a narrow groove beside a beading

   Synonyms:
   quirkiness, crotchet, queerness, oddity

3. quirkverb

   twist or curve abruptly

   "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"

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1. • Twist

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1. quirknoun

   Synonyms:
   evasion, shift, make-shift, loophole, quibble, pretence, pretext, excuse

2. quirknoun

   Synonyms:
   taunt, jibe, jeer, sally, QUIP

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1. quirknoun

   Synonyms:
   evasion, subterfuge, shift, quibble, prevarication, equivocation, retort, quip, gibe

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1. List of paraphrases for "quirk":

   whim, caprice, hobby

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How to use quirk in a sentence?

1. Christopher Grove:

   Withers LLP's a quirk of the way the system works at the edges, rather than something more deliberate.

2. Los Angeles-based lawyer Julian Chan:

   Ms. Spears conservatorship seems to have an odd quirk, while established to protect her from herself, it appears from news reports that she actively parents her children. In other words, someone is deciding she is fit enough to parent but not take care of herself.

3. Marco Rubio:

   I will always have tremendous affection and respect for him despite the fact that -- because of a weird quirk of fate -- we ended up running for the same office at the same time, i did not run for president to stop Jeb Bush. I ran for president because I believe that America's greatest days lie ahead if we do what needs to be done right now in 2016.

4. Bruce Wells:

   My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' '' When phantom Bible passages turn dangerous People may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well. Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say. Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity. Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since. But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.

5. Matthias Maurer:

   Everyone of us has a quirk which we are comfortable with but which can annoy others, if he hadn't said that so politely and clearly, I would have continually annoyed him.