unfamiliar
adjective
not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about.
unfamiliarly
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a word derived from
unfamiliar.
Example Sentences
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Your hands appear as strange, robotic appendages that wiggle unfamiliarly as you move them.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2019
Jon stared up at the sun, still so unfamiliarly warm here in King’s Landing.
From Slate ● May 15, 2019
People noticed it by canals or in backyards or under streetlights at night — familiar places that had become unfamiliarly empty.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018
Yet all hot streaks must come to an end, and Payne’s first film in five years, Downsizing, has landed him in unfamiliarly tepid territory.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2017
“What did one wall say to the other wall?” he asked, not unfamiliarly.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
