oddly

[Odd·ly]

In a strange manner

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In an odd manner; unevently.

Adverb
in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he''s behaving rather peculiarly"

Adverb
in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"; "he acted kind of funny"


adv.
In an odd manner; unevently.

adv.
In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously.

adv.
In a manner measured by an odd number.


Oddly

Odd"ly, adv. 1. In an odd manner; unevently. [R.] 2. In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously. "A figure a little more oddly turned." Locke.
A great black substance,... very oddly shaped.
3. (Math.) In a manner measured by an odd number.

In an odd manner; unevently.

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Usage Examples

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

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