oddly

adverb

odd·​ly ˈäd-lē How to pronounce oddly (audio)
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.
Recent Examples on the Web The story at the center of My Dead Friend Zoe — a young woman suffering from PTSD and tasked with caring for her aging grandfather — is oddly unyielding, never relaxing enough to fully engage or move us. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024 She and her family are welcomed by the queen, Isabelle (Robin Wright, gorgeously cloaked in robes, power and snobbery), and her fiancé, Prince Henry (Nick Robinson), who looks oddly sheepish, as if he’d been caught in a lie on his Royal Match profile. Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024 The rice itself looked tasty enough—fluffy, well formed—but its oddly fleshy hue gave me the creeps. Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024 Once inside, the route ducks among vertical escarpments, oddly balanced rocks and contorted pillars. Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024 In fact, keeping the plant inside its original grow pot and hiding it within an oddly shaped or oversize vessel is a common practice that can keep a plant healthier with better drainage. Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024 The follow-up to The Centre Cannot Hold mixes looped snatches of disfigured guitar riffs with field recordings, unsteady beats, buzz-saw synths, and sonar recordings of sperm whales, evoking a tectonic landscape that is thunderous yet oddly meditative. Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 Mar. 2024 What Rademaker learned was that, despite the rapid growth of consumer demand for sushi, the process of catching, growing, processing and selling eels in the U.S. was oddly convoluted. Anne Field, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 One of several films released over the holiday 2023 season whose distributor oddly downplayed its status as a musical, Paul King’s origin story about the mischievous chocolatier starring Timothy Chalamet comes home on multiple formats. Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of oddly was in 1597

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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddly. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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oddly

adverb
odd·​ly ˈäd-lē How to pronounce oddly (audio)
1
: in an odd manner
was behaving oddly
2
: as is odd
liked the work, oddly enough

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