Peculiar in a sentence as an adjective

Here in the UK, we have a peculiar paradox regarding the rollout of fibre.

All the points are valid but they are peculiar to Java, not to all managed high-level languages.

And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food.

When you say that the book is getting "a peculiar amount of attention", it really sounds like you're suggesting some sort of scam.

Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.

Second, it can mean "peculiar to a particular group, individual or style".

His cue literally skews through a ten-degree angle between the start of his delivery and the end, and his hand twists too. Wikipedia sheds some light on this:Hoppe's peculiar style of stroke was a result of his career as a child prodigy.

Something I thought slightly peculiar given that he was supposed to be investing his own, significant funds along with B. Plus, I don't believe that he actually did any measurable work during the time period that would justify it based on what I knew at the time.

The fundamentalist missionaries infected them with the peculiar sort of madness, entitlement, laziness and corruption that comes with that belief system.

Am I just seeing this through some peculiar VCS-warped glasses?I believe that much of the popularity of git stems from github making it very easy to adopt, something that bitbucket doesn't seem to have pulled off as well.

Rails has peculiar needs with regards to typical Ruby applications, and a certain portion of the developer community feels that people who write themselves peculiar needs can write their own solutions to them.

The social media sphere of the internet seems to share a peculiar property with automobiles: when social media or cars are involved, people often dehumanize others and turn into massive assholes.

But I do love the man and while I'm here I'll leave this peculiar bit of foresight from him which reminds me of Siri:"One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

One of the peculiar attributes of Amazon's action against us is that it was well publicized within Amazon -- and was apparently a result of outrage by a high-ranking executive after he learned that the former AWS engineer not only was working for a competitor, but had the gumption to open source a technology that he developed here.

" -- Thomas Jefferson "But grants of this sort can be justified in very peculiar cases only, if at all; the danger being very great that the good resulting from the operation of the monopoly, will be overbalanced by the evil effect of the precedent; and it being not impossible that the monopoly itself, in its original operation, may produce more evil than good.

Peculiar definitions

adjective

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"

See also: curious funny queer rummy singular

adjective

unique or specific to a person or thing or category; "the particular demands of the job"; "has a particular preference for Chinese art"; "a peculiar bond of sympathy between them"; "an expression peculiar to Canadians"; "rights peculiar to the rich"; "the special features of a computer"; "my own special chair"

adjective

markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf

adjective

characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney