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oddly adverb strangely, remarkably, curiously, extraordinarily, astonishingly, bizarrely, singularly, unaccountably He seemed oddly reluctant to talk about it. Translations oddly [ˈɒdlɪ] ADV [behave, act] → de(una)manera rara, de(una)manera extraña, en forma extraña(LAm) he's behaving very oddly → se está comportando de(una)manera muy rara or extraña oddly attractive/calm → extrañamente atractivo/tranquilo an oddly shaped room → una habitación con una forma rara or extraña they are oddly similar → tienen un extraño parecido oddly enough, you're right → por extraño que parezca, tienes razón oddly [ˈɒdli] adv [behave] → bizarrement (= unaccountably) [reluctant, familiar, touching, comforting] → curieusement oddly adv speak, behave → eigenartig, sonderbar, merkwürdig; an oddly shaped room → ein Raum, der eine seltsame Form hat; I find her oddly attractive → ich finde sie auf (eine) seltsame Art anziehend; they are oddly similar → sie sind sich seltsam or merkwürdig ähnlich; the street was oddly familiar → die Straße kam mir merkwürdig bekannt vor; oddly enough she was at home → merkwürdigerweise or seltsamerweise war sie zu Hause; oddly enough you are right → Sie werden überrascht sein, aber das stimmt oddly [ˈɒdlɪ] adv → stranamente they are oddly similar → tra di loro c'è una strana somiglianza oddly enough you are right → stranamente hai ragione oddly [ˈɒdlɪ] adv → stranamente they are oddly similar → tra di loro c'è una strana somiglianza oddly enough you are right → stranamente hai ragione How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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