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oddly

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odd  (d)
adj. odd·er, odd·est
1. Deviating from what is ordinary, usual, or expected; strange or peculiar: an odd name; odd behavior. See Synonyms at strange.
2. Being in excess of the indicated or approximate number, extent, or degree. Often used in combination: invited 30-odd guests.
3.
a. Constituting a remainder: had some odd dollars left over.
b. Small in amount: jingled the odd change in my pockets.
4.
a. Being one of an incomplete pair or set: an odd shoe.
b. Remaining after others have been paired or grouped.
5. Mathematics Designating an integer not divisible by two, such as 1, 3, and 5.
6. Not expected, regular, or planned: called at odd intervals.
7. Remote; out-of-the-way: found the antique shop in an odd corner of town.
n.
1. Something odd.
2. Sports
a. In the United States, a golf score one stroke higher than the score of one's opponent.
b. In Great Britain, a stroke added to a superior golfer's score or a stroke taken away from an inferior golfer's score in order to equalize the chances of winning a match.

[Middle English odde, from Old Norse oddi, point of land, triangle, odd number.]

oddly adv.
oddness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.oddly - in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly"
2.oddly - in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"
Translations
Spanish oddly [ˈɔdlɪ] advextrañamente
French oddly [ˈɔdlɪ] odd advbizarrement, curieusement
German oddly [ˈɔdlɪ] odd adv [behave, dress] → seltsam see also enough
Italian oddly [ˈɔdlɪ] advstranamente

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It would have sounded oddly to Mary, but life is gray to friendless girls, and something might have come of it.
Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness; --yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old, crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah's ark.
 
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