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a person of odd or whimsical habits
an eccentric who designed his house to look like a Scottish castle
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Recent Examples of eccentrics
Dippold has populated the show with lovable eccentrics played by great character actors—Dale Dickey, Jeff Hiller, Tim Baltz.
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Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
Inbred eccentrics and bumbling detectives have populated the seaside villages of Bruno Dumont’s absurdist comedies.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
16 June 2026
But the film is really a tour of a pre-gentrified East Village, full of low-key bars and cafes, run-down apartments, eccentrics and struggling artists.
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Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
Once a stronghold of canneries and lumber mills, the town has numerous tumbledown Victorians that have long been havens for artists, brewers, and various eccentrics—along with fans of The Goonies, who make pilgrimages to see where the seminal movie was shot.
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David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners.
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Air Mail,
2 May 2026
The town’s overflowing with charming Midwest eccentrics, including a cocky mayor (Henry Winkler) and a welcoming barkeep (Lena Headey).
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
Those crazy, diverse individuals, that tribe of oddballs and eccentrics, dreamers, and gamblers who make up this business.
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Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
Catherine O’Hara portrayed ridiculous eccentrics with equal parts hilarity and humanity.
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The Week Us,
TheWeek,
10 Feb. 2026
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
Inbred eccentrics and bumbling detectives have populated the seaside villages of Bruno Dumont’s absurdist comedies.
—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
16 June 2026
But the film is really a tour of a pre-gentrified East Village, full of low-key bars and cafes, run-down apartments, eccentrics and struggling artists.
—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
Once a stronghold of canneries and lumber mills, the town has numerous tumbledown Victorians that have long been havens for artists, brewers, and various eccentrics—along with fans of The Goonies, who make pilgrimages to see where the seminal movie was shot.
—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
10 June 2026
But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners.
—
Air Mail,
2 May 2026
The town’s overflowing with charming Midwest eccentrics, including a cocky mayor (Henry Winkler) and a welcoming barkeep (Lena Headey).
—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
Those crazy, diverse individuals, that tribe of oddballs and eccentrics, dreamers, and gamblers who make up this business.
—
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
Catherine O’Hara portrayed ridiculous eccentrics with equal parts hilarity and humanity.
—
The Week Us,
TheWeek,
10 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eccentrics
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Her lab has found even modest additions to the diet — a handful of nuts or an avocado — can enrich certain beneficial bacteria over the course of a few weeks.
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Including foods like avocado, olive oil, nuts, or seeds can make your meal more satisfying and may also stimulate digestion.
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Reid had already spent two seasons playing Lestat through other characters’ memories and perspectives.
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Kids love the age-specific kids' programming, Xbox lounge, Sesame Street characters, and enormous water park, while adults enjoy golf, scuba lessons, and 26 dining options, including casual beach spots and upscale fusion restaurants.
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In January 2010, Tesla had sold less than 2,000 cars in its entire history, virtually all of them electric oddballs based on sports cars from Lotus, a relatively obscure British company.
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Then there are oddballs – traction control – pretty rare in this class, alongside ABS, and a belt drive.
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Evans will host the series, which follows the format of the originals but takes it outside of the studio and onto location.
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Then there's the double-feed release button for recovering from input misfeeds and a slow-speed function for handling fragile originals.
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Casement windows swing out using cranks to open rather than sliding up or to the side on a track like standard windows.
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In any case, the TM-B defining feature is the software that sits between the cranks and the motor, shaping the whole cycling experience.
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Himes’ novels, like Riley’s films, also run on a bench of eccentric weirdos.
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In a community overflowing with crusty weirdos, Kate O’Flynn’s Patricia emerges as the undeniable standout.
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Carl Anka Trent Alexander-Arnold’s England career is a fascinating case study in why team sports can prefer the orthodox to the mavericks.
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The confluence at Black Mountain of émigré artists like Josef and Anni Albers with homegrown mavericks like John Cage and Buckminster Fuller (who constructed his first geodesic dome there) marked an early flowering of this mode of learning, which was still in fine health decades later.
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O’Hara worked consistently across her 50-year career in both film and television, best known for playing beloved kooks and amiable wackos, though her range was boundless.
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What so many of these talking heads have in common—legitimate experts, well-meaning journalists, and kooks alike—is how costly their recommendations are.
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“Eccentrics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eccentrics. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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