eccentric
Example Sentences
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"Gladys has surprised me because she's getting a lot of love back," she said of her Weapons character, an eccentric woman who turns up in a US town just before the local schoolchildren go missing.
From BBC
There were singing mediums, who warbled tunes composed by the spirits, and dancing mediums, who moved in a “very eccentric” manner.
From Literature
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.
What the more casual spectator wants, and gets, is a highly dramatic, bingeable distillation of a sport that involves multimillion-dollar cars going in eccentric circles.
What was viewed as merely eccentric in 1956, when Gavin Maxwell brought an otter back from the Tigris marshes, would now be seen as unethical, not to mention illegal.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
