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He used to be a real oddball back in high school.
she's known as the office oddball
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Then came The Favourite (2018), the first of his collaborations with screenwriter Tony McNamara, which gave his oddball perspective a period-piece context and, unsurprisingly, a bigger audience.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
Coleman also portrayed an over-the-top oddball in How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980), a lisping pornographer in Dragnet (1987) and a slimy drag queen in Meet the Applegates (1990).
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
Coleman also portrayed an over-the-top oddball in How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980), a lisping pornographer in Dragnet (1987) and a slimy drag queen in Meet the Applegates (1990).
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
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“Oddball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddball. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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oddball
noun
odd·ball
-ˌbȯl 
: a person who behaves strangely
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