some kind of

alternative some kinda

1. a mediocre; a bare minimum; (denoting that something only barely fits a certain category, or is very mediocre in it)
2. A remarkable.

   Lindsey glanced at Tom, who smiled, apparently in no hurry to talk about that training op. Red Cell. That was going to be some kind of fun.

   2005, Suzanne Brockmann, Patrick G. Lawlor (Patrick Girard), Melanie Ewbank, Into the storm, 1st edition, Grand Haven, MI: Brilliance Audio

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   I'm not going to pry into your life, but I wish you'd tell me how you got to the South Carolina Lowcountry. That trip must be some kind of story.

   1998, Anne Rivers Siddons, Low Country, New York: Harper Collins

   Synonyms: some type of, some sort of, some

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, kind, of.

alternative some kinda

1. not comparableUsed as an intensifier of adjectives: remarkably

   Those women must have been some kind of ugly.

   2003, Cathy Day, “The Last Member of the Boela Tribe”, in The Antioch Review, volume 61, number 4, page 598

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   "Why is he grounded?" / "Went to a^([sic]) underwear option party up in Natchitoches. That boy, he is some kind of wild."

   2003, Sandra Hill, Tall, dark, and Cajun, New York City: Warner Books

   Those women that stalk us have to be some kind of sick.

   2012, Blaize Clement, The cat sitter's pajamas, 1st edition, New York: Minotaur Books

   Synonyms: some type of, some sort of