oddballs
Example Sentences
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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The period has been the subject of many other nostalgia pieces, though usually without chittering little oddballs at the center of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Comedy nerds and oddballs of all stripes embraced the show, especially its singularly off-putting heroine, a woman with a garish overbite, a sordid past and a strangely infectious nasal drawl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Some of his new employees were distinctly oddballs for an academic laboratory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
