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oddball

[ UK /ˈɒdbɔːl/ ]
[ US /ˈɑdˌbɔɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person with an unusual or odd personality

How To Use oddball In A Sentence

  • His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
  • His songs had gone from sublime to bizarre, compounded by his friendship with oddball lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
  • They've stocked the audience with a few token oddballs.
  • The oddball superstar's habits include watching TV with his chimpanzee.
  • I compiled a bunch of recent flamenco things, really oddball flamenco things.
  • Third, there are the truly restless - the oddballs and eccentrics who always seem to want to look at things from a different angle.
  • I was also a bit of an oddball at school. Times, Sunday Times
  • Where their debut looked to the KLF, Surfing the Void's psychonautical vocabulary recalls another oddball early 90s dance act, the Shamen, who infiltrated the top 10 with talk of a "shamanic, anarchistic, archaic revival" in the days when trance acts played clubs with names like Megatripolis and expounded on the mystical importance of the number The Guardian World News
  • It suggests oddball tours instead of bus circuits; there's even a chainless-bike tour for 'white-jean wearers'. Times, Sunday Times
  • John Ritter had the kind of oddball career that is almost too easy to dismiss, if you don't know better.
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