1
: in an odd manner
2
: as is odd
was quite happy, oddly enough
Examples of oddly in a Sentence
the house's oddly shaped roof
Their lives had been oddly similar.
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Nargess Banks, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Her website is clunky, peppered with typos, yet oddly AI-like in tone.
—Ellen O'Connell Whittet
june 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
Instead, we are treated to all the joys and pains of 10 transformative months, with Ewing and Grady taking us inside an experience that’s both specific and oddly universal.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 24 June 2025
But oddly enough, writing something so generic was the freeing element to all of our problems.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddly. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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oddly
adverb
odd·ly
ˈäd-lē 
1
: in an odd manner
was behaving oddly
2
: as is odd
liked the work, oddly enough
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