eccentric

In “The Social Reckoning,” the heroes are brilliant, eccentric, sarcastic, edgy and arrogant; the villains are brilliant, eccentric, sarcastic, edgy and arrogant; the subsidiary characters are brilliant, etc.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He presented as an eccentric neighbor who’d chosen a peaceful, off-grid lifestyle.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

In the process, Wilson meets other eccentric characters that share his passion of filmmaking but have their own interests, like clearing gum from a sidewalk, immortalizing a person’s tattoo after they’re dead, and music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Its orbit would have been about four times more eccentric than that of Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy shell is heavily fractured by the continual gravitational stretching and squeezing it experiences.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s no wonder that many arcanists you meet are a little eccentric, if not downright cracked.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He takes his time absorbing every seemingly inconsequential detail as he becomes attached to the personalities of eccentrics on their self-assigned quests to accomplish unlikely goals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Both Kennedy and Trump are famous eccentrics who possess a charismatic weirdness that somehow captures people’s imaginations — and inspires them to become devoted followers.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

Mainstream entertainment feeds us lies: We’re all eccentrics struggling to find our way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

It is full of eccentrics, impish humour, and the absurdities of small-town and big-city life.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

“Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee