Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Queer and difficult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Queer" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- She loved the use of the term "puss" to describe a cat, and pretty much every heroine of hers is called "queer" sooner or later — meaning, unusual, defiant of social custom, difficult to define.
Source: Creator / L. M. Montgomery - Judith Butlers 1990 book "Gender Trouble" is a pretty good summation of lesbian feminist ideas and queer theory as a whole, although the high levels of academic jargon have made it notoriously difficult to read.
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