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Definition of quirk:

  • (noun) a strange attitude or habit
  • (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading
  • (verb) twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"

Sentence Examples:

The white villagers came marching through his mind as beings austere, and the very cranks and quirks of their characters somehow held that austerity.

There was a whimsical quirk of his rather thin but gentle lips which reminded her of the big bust of Emerson in her father's study.

Accustomed as our readers are to the quips, quirks, and quibbles, of the Gatherer, we doubt whether the following loose reflections will not be received as egotistical, or out of place.

In his youth he doubtless used them in good faith, and even sought for them as traits of excellence; for he himself shared to the fullest extent in the redundancy of mental life which distinguished the age, and which naturally loves to sport itself in such quirks of thought and speech.

No man who loves human nature in all its quirks and pangs, seasoned with bluff honesty and the genuineness of a cliff or a tree, can afford to step into a hearse until he has made it his own.

He resolved, therefore, to set his attorney to work, who, as he understood all the quirks and intricacy of the law, might be able to puzzle her into compliance.

This means that the observer was not affected by any determinable psychological quirks and that after exhaustive investigation the object that was reported could not be identified.

Wood finely divided burns with gay quirks and jets of flame, and making cheerful crackling noises the while; but its warmth and brightness are as evanescent as love's young dream.

He acquired in those days a quizzical cock to his right eyebrow, and a comically confidential quirk to his mouth, which were in themselves enough to provoke a laugh.

Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven.

He had a quiz and a quirk for everybody that passed in another boat, and would stand up and rant at them until they considered him insane.

To ridicule effectually the reigning vices, he would prefer quirks or puns to sublime thoughts; and he was little solicitous of his choice of expression, so the things came home.

As he stood at the gate he thought that the mansion was glaring at him with an upturned nose and this imaginative quirk caused him to hesitate to enter.

Rosanne, however, seemed far from being in her usual vein of quips and quirks and bright, ironical sayings about the world in general.

He receives these little dots and specks, and fantastical quirks of the pencil, and cuts away with a little knife round each, not too much nor too little.

I noticed my girl minced and toyed with the fish, soup and other preliminaries, but attributed that to some feminine quirk.

He did not know, evidently, that she was more accustomed to giving commands than to obeying them; her lips gave a little quirk of amusement at his mistake.

Yes, by marriage he assured himself after consulting again the stiff paper form that the lawyers had properly filled out; and he gave one of those funny little quirks to his eye which he did when not wholly satisfied with a "proposition" presented to him.

Now for the first time he looked upon her as a flesh-and-blood girl, noted the red in her olive cheeks, the fire in her dark eyes, and realized that her interest in that package of money might be something more than another queer quirk in the tangle of events.

Father Galoshes was the name he went by most, but Case always gave it the French quirk, which was another reason we had for thinking him above the common.

Unfortunately for my stomach and mucous membranes, Nelson had a strange quirk of nature that made him find happiness in treating me to beer.

Quibbles and quirks and barren technicalities were an abomination to him as a foundation upon which to base an action or a defense.

And he smiled at her out of his narrowed eyes and with his quirked, quizzical mouth, as if he expected her to share his amusement and amazement at himself.

In this instance, also, Franklin was but true to his practice of sometimes inserting a quip or a quirk into even the gravest contexts.

We looked on as the anxious quirks of our classmates became personal trademarks which would either be overcome in time or rage without end.

His own eyes were very like them and softened as he looked at her, a masculine version of one of her quick dimples quirked at the corner of his clean-cut mouth.

It was an odd thing, she mournfully reflected, that Wallace never got himself, his own, bubbling, merry, joyous self, full of quirks and quips, into his plays.

They kept mostly to themselves, dancing and singing and making personal remarks together, always detaching themselves with a polite attentive quirk of the head when an older person addressed them.

Personally, I have never been happier than when I was frolicking through some entirely light-weight opera, full of whims and quirks and laughing music.

In penning this quirk, the eminent critic would seem to have willfully overlooked the fact that a writer's life may have much or may have little to do with his works.

I might not hesitate to dispute with a most learned theologian, to hang with him upon the quirks of his creed, but with a pencil and a piece of paper a banker's clerk can cower me.

And when between his quirks he'd drawn the piteous tale entirely from him, he doubled up with laughter and smote his sides.

Of course, Nick could have hocked the damned thing in some town when he needed money, and by some quirk of fate it had been brought back to the same area it had left over a year before.

From the man's name then and swarthy complexion, he decided, by some unaccountable quirk of the mind, that he was an Englishman!

The greater part of the lawyers, weary of the quirks of the Ecclesiastical tribunals, attached themselves to the Reformation, but its cause was keenly embraced above all by the Humanists.

In Pal's opinion the cabin was satisfactory, and he had never understood the quirks of humans that kept them forever doing something that did not look like fun and seemed unnecessary.

For a moment she had that odd clairvoyance that comes to persons who, by some quirk of fate, are compelled to think for themselves.

Ten minutes more and the murderer will be rescued from justice by a set of French lawyers, who will set him free by quirks and quibbles.

The twin worried lines from the top of her nose to the middle of her forehead ironed out; the corners of her mouth quirked into the forerunner of an honest smile.

It is rich with allusions and memories, ready with knowledge of life, and quickened with a love for quirks and oddities in character wherever they are to be found.

It transports us quite as much to the manners of the court, and the quirks of courts of law, as to the scenes of nature or the fairyland of his own imagination.

Quirks, quibbles, evasions, impudence itself, all deserted him, till, by the most fortunate chance in the world, Beauchamp pronounced the word rogue, which instantly called anger to his aid.

Jean gave a little gurgle that may have been related to laughter, and Lite's lips quirked with humorous embarrassment as he went on.

The law has plenty of quibbles and quirks for the help of rogues and scoundrels, but it can't lend a hand to an honest cause, at a pinch!

He has most carefully gleaned up all the little quirks and artifices in the law, which being too few for his purpose, he has augmented the number with some of his own invention.

He was half-way to the house when he glanced back to see the first of the five miserable looking "quirks" crawling painfully out of the fuselage.

Involving, so far as I can see, heredity, racial memories, acquired physical weaknesses, mental quirks, tricks of egotism, and a multitude of mysteries I have never been able to solve.

"Fate brought me, and didn't tell me," he answered, with a whimsical quirk of the mouth, and his trouble lurking behind the sea-deep eyes.

What a quirk of fate that here, with death but a hair's-breadth removed, they should unwittingly find that for which under happier circumstances they might have sought endlessly and in vain.

The corner of his mouth quirked, his eyelids drooped in the old quizzical way, and the crowd laughed in spite of themselves.

The organist suddenly stopped at this point, breaking off with a queer little quirk and shiver as if he only then discovered what he was doing.

Among the many strange quirks of local law is one which requires the Coroner at times to serve as a constable and to make levies.

Cried each little soul, quickly speeding through the house from top to toe, and pulling the strings which set the breath to coming and going, and the little fingers and toes to quirking and nestling.

He paid me a reasonable sum for them; I took the money meekly, without making account of the quirks and quibbles of the players.

It is not hard to imagine with what quips and quirks of native fancy Lincoln and his friends beguiled the way through forest and prairie.

In such a case it appears to me that mere niceties of laws, and quips and quirks, are entirely subordinate to high sense of honor.

Elegies and epitaphs were its favorite method, and the "most elaborate and painful jests," every conceivable and some inconceivable quirks and solemn puns made up their substance.