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eccentric

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Not only that, but the whole gruesome tale was set in rhyming verse of a most eccentric nature.

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Virginia depicted herself and her husband Leonard “lying crushed under an immense manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s”—and so, literary modernism’s eccentric pioneer was rejected by its suavest representative.

He was described in court as a "lost soul" and an "eccentric fantasist" who believed he could manage Arsenal football club or even England.

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Striking up friendships with other artists in the building, Abel became known as an amusing eccentric.

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One eccentric grandmother had been a regional stage actress and was a painter who slept all day and painted at night; the other was an interior designer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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