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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Angela Haupt, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
Gates bought the Xanadu land in 1988 for just $2 million—then proceeded to pour about $63 million into the property, which has 24 bathrooms, but oddly just seven bedrooms.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
Kurt's key takeaways Ending things with Lena felt oddly emotional.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Feb. 2026
And yet, Waltz’s affable, wooden interpretation flattens the role and makes the movie’s moral center read as oddly mundane.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Feb. 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddly. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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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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