as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
she's known as the office oddball
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Recent Examples of oddball
Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Decades before the memes and punchlines, the Broward native spawned a fictional franchise populated by preposterous oddballs, bottom-feeders and other shadowy denizens of the Sunshine State.
—Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025
Mother Monster is another oddball capable of playing it arrestingly straight.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The premises were a little complicated and surreal, using Gaga’s oddball energy to their advantage.
—Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The clan of oddballs and down-and-outs has more than a little in common with the Kim family in Parasite, including Song as a hapless patriarch.
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The opening and closing scenes of Bong’s masterful 2009 film are, swear to God, among the greatest bookends in movie history.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Decades before the memes and punchlines, the Broward native spawned a fictional franchise populated by preposterous oddballs, bottom-feeders and other shadowy denizens of the Sunshine State.
—Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2025
Mother Monster is another oddball capable of playing it arrestingly straight.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The premises were a little complicated and surreal, using Gaga’s oddball energy to their advantage.
—Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddball
Noun
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Rachel does a great job conveying such collective endeavors and group dreaming, the whole circumference of people who support bands: friends of friends, drop-of-a-hat designers, stopgap agents, stall owners, dealers, grandparents with record collections, eccentrics without portfolios.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Would love to know what these career eccentrics make of the pomp and pageantry of the Grammys.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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The movie, based on the video game of the same name, centers around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2025
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But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.—
Ben Brubaker,
Wired News,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Over time, though, the character began to resemble Warner Bros. Discovery president David Zaslav, who famously sought to permanently shelve projects like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme for tax write-offs.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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But after Bonet departed the series following its first season, the focus shifted to characters played by Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Glynn Turman, Cory Tyler, Lou Myers, Darryl M. Bell, Cree Summer, and Charnele Brown.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Now, in the show’s second season, Cromwell becomes the subject of outlandish gossip himself.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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There’s nothing wrong with outlandish flights of fancy on the movie screen.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Canvas’s menu feature flavors such as Arabic coffee and karak chai and biscuits, but Al Marri also enjoys experimenting with unusual combinations, looking outside the dessert realm for ideas.—
Nicola Chilton,
AFAR Media,
28 Mar. 2025
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Cruise cancellations are relatively unusual but can happen for a number of other reasons, including when a ship is chartered or needs to go to dry dock.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The show flips between two timelines both before and after his demise and is loaded with dark humor and offbeat wit.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Still, there’s an offbeat energy to the affair, with Burton layering an ominously stormy sky over a world rich in color and grandeur.—
Staff Author,
EW.com,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Actress Jennifer Coolidge won an Emmy for her comic, kooky yet vulnerable turn in 2022, one of five Emmies won by the White Lotus.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Friday’s reply by the Justice Department is just kooky.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Oddball.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddball. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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