weirdly

adv

1. In a weird manner.

   “The teacher suspected he was on drugs because he was behaving weirdly.”

   “She wore a necklace strung with weirdly-shaped pearls.”

   “The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.”

2. Contrary to expectations.

   “Weirdly, Alice showed up 10 minutes early. She was usually late for everything.”

   “The roughness of the wool was weirdly pleasant.”