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as in sick
affected with nausea
eating all of that deep-fried food would make most people feel a little queer
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as in strange
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
one competitor had a queer way of running that attracted a lot of attention from the spectators
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as in unusual
noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced
a lot of queer things started happening almost from the day that we moved into the house
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as in obsessed
having extreme or relentless concern
he's a little queer on the subject of astronomy; if you get him going, he'll talk for hours
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as in counterfeit
being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud
queer money that was the work of a master forger
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as in questionable
giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged
queer business practices that bear some looking into
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as in to humble
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as in to gum (up)
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Recent Examples of queer
Quispe López, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
Mx Blouse, spotlighted as Spotify’s GLOW artist in October, is one of the artists, DJs, and nightlife organizers actively queering this diverse metro of six million people (and just as many trees).
—Jd Shadel, Them, 2 July 2024
Almodóvar’s gaze is more like a series of fun house mirrors here, passing through classic dime-store-novel narrative, the macho-man canon of midcentury Technicolor westerns and the winky camp of queering it all in circa-2023 couture.
—Leah Greenblatt, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Verb
Fish lesbians often queered feminine aesthetics, warping heteronormative and cisnormative expectations of gender to play with them in more imaginative ways.
—Quispe López, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
Mx Blouse, spotlighted as Spotify’s GLOW artist in October, is one of the artists, DJs, and nightlife organizers actively queering this diverse metro of six million people (and just as many trees).
—Jd Shadel, Them, 2 July 2024
Almodóvar’s gaze is more like a series of fun house mirrors here, passing through classic dime-store-novel narrative, the macho-man canon of midcentury Technicolor westerns and the winky camp of queering it all in circa-2023 couture.
—Leah Greenblatt, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queer
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The vaccine doesn’t prevent 100% of infections, but those who are vaccinated and still get sick typically have milder illness, according to the CDC.Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Americans don't appear to be getting sick with respiratory illnesses just yet, according to federal health data.Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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Turkmenistan is often described as being strange, mysterious, odd or offbeat.Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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And there were indeed some very strange and unfortunate things that took place during filming.Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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There’s clearly an appetite for the unusual, however, as this F430 Spider .Christian Gilbertsen, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2024
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The Secret Service immediately undertook to instruct all us agents in the White House on how to deal with unusual questions the president asked us.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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Ava is obviously very obsessed with true crime, and Tory has sort of turned a blind eye to it.Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Would someone so dangerous be so obsessed with their dead mother?Maeve Dunigan, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Federal authorities have repeatedly warned that counterfeit goods threaten the health and safety of consumers.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
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Gibson, makes its guitars exclusively in the United States, verified that the guitars were counterfeit.Tara Suter, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
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My main goal was to save the questionable, fragile relationship, whatever the cost.Taylor Eff, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Her Twitter feed contains questionable information, to put it nicely, on a wide range of topics, including vaccines and immigrants.Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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Sewell is a smarmy charmer all over again, only slightly humbled by his brush with death at the end of Season 1.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Here, those assuming power can be quickly humbled, either through robust checks and balances on their power or via the stunning verdicts often handed down in the court of public opinion.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Killian earned a reputation for being funny and outré.Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
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Jennifer Aniston's then-husband is hilarious as an old high school enemy of Rachel's, a story line made even funnier by knowing that the two were married off-screen at the time.Diana Pearl, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Queer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queer. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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