eccentric

Example Sentences

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It’s a traditional sort of U.K. series, a well-dressed postwar period piece with an eccentric detective at its center.

From Los Angeles Times

You could be whoever you wanted to be here — as eccentric or conventional, ambitious or laid back as you wished.

From Los Angeles Times

Mars' location in the solar system -- its distance from the Sun, its neighbors like Earth, the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn -- forces it into a more elongated and eccentric orbit.

From Science Daily

In late August, a TikTok featuring an eccentric, over-the-top British man with a black bob and crooked teeth went viral.

From Salon

There’s a stilted quality to the conversation as they discuss their eccentric, inscrutable dad.

From Los Angeles Times