Sentence:  Of all the <WSD>queer</WSD> collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Weird, odd or different; whimsical. (from 16th c.)