eccentric
deviating from conventional or accepted behavior in odd ways
Eccentric in a sentence
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The eccentric inventor filled his house with bizarre contraptions.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.
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