Curiously in a sentence as an adverb

I was, curiously, allowed to keep my shoelaces. The other officers that would walk by my urine soaked cell and ask why I was there did not believe at first that I had been arrested for running a red light.

The story is another demo of this curiously common mentality where nobody can be held to account for their choices. You can't say that people are fat because they're slobs with no self control, no, it's fructose, fast food ads, or whatever.

Granted, I look older in a suit, but it's a curiously consistent cultural artefact. You don't find anyone lauding over 22-year old hedge fund or energy venture founders as VCs do over over their 19-year old "rock stars".

Always curiously searching and probing and testing and challenging yourself and making yourself stronger. Like I said, I know grades seem important to you now, but your dream is not destroyed -- it's hardly even started.

I encourage you to read the article for details, but essentially it seems to consist in observing whatever happens in your mind without trying to control it, without trying to avoid it, curiously and observantly following wherever it leads. This method of meditating sounds interesting, and I look forward to trying it in the future.

Suffice it to say that there is a complicated series of checks that the submarine commander must perform to establish the true situationone of which, curiously, is to determine whether Radio 4 is still broadcasting."

Curiously definitions

adverb

in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly"

See also: oddly peculiarly

adverb

with curiosity; "the baby looked around curiously"

See also: inquisitively interrogatively