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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Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 20 May 2025
Those expecting another Oldboy, his oddly stock 2013 redo of Park Chan-wook’s Oedipal nightmare, will be pleasantly surprised by how personal this feels.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
Season 2 offers a chilling, darkly hilarious and oddly liberating spin on a bad day at the office.
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
The oddly fickle and precise mix of atmospheric ingredients needed to generate tornadoes just happens to have occurred over and over again since mid-March—and the season isn’t over yet.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddly. Accessed 25 May. 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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