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oddments





NOUN
scraps
Synonyms
WEAK




Example Sentences

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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

And there are those, like this reporter, whose magpie ambition is to collect random shiny conversational oddments like the one above.

From New York Times • May 8, 2017

The bond is inevitably looser than the real thing, generally fleeting, and yet there is something telling about the random oddments of criteria that contribute to the choice.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2015

Some dressed in fine soft furs, some in boiled leather and oddments of armor, more in wool and sealskins, a few in rags.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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