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Recent Examples of off-the-wall Much more perplexing is the result of that exercise: writer-director Radu Jude’s rowdy and off-the-wall three-hour patience-tester, simply titled Dracula. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025 But don’t several vintage sitcoms from the era feature a largely unrecognized subversive or off-the-wall quality? Chris Reed, Oc Register, 30 July 2025 Wiseman came up with one of de Armas’ favorite off-the-wall weapons: an ice skate that Eve sticks her hand in and uses like a boxing glove on an enemy. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 June 2025 Don’t let a vague comment or off-the-wall plan derail your progress and personal growth. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for off-the-wall
Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-the-wall
Adjective
  • In the film, Credenza runs the bizarre amusement park of Twitlandia alongside her husband — delighting in dirty pranks, filth and cruelty along the way.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • However, an anonymous NFL general manager has urged the team to target a bizarre position instead.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His writing is lavishly detailed and sharply intelligent, nuanced and lyrical but also funny and sometimes surreal.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The dudes-rock montage that followed the execution sketch had some genuinely funny bits.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson spent his leisure time writing down the strange new lyrics in his journal.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The place was a dump, with paint chipping from the ceilings, floors slanted at strange angles, rodent droppings situated along the floorboards, and paper-thin walls that welcomed in bitter winter air.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The modern world drives you back underground in a weird way.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One of the most compelling takeaways from the Nuggets’ preseason was David Adelman’s willingness to get weird — a quality that escaped them by the end of Michael Malone’s tenure.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Exactly 67 seconds later, this odd parka-wearing child makes the same gesture.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The widely varied performances are quietly yet keenly expressive; Reichardt’s dialogue has enticingly odd spin (starting with an ingenious monologue for a precocious child) and the cast delivers it with pinpoint inflections.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The new record is almost defiantly curious, searching rather than authoritative.
    Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For the past 35 years, a row of four vacant 19th-century townhouses on Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn has drawn curious looks from passerby.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Tudyk brings his vocal versatility to the movie as The Sweet-Toed Toad, one of the story’s most peculiar creatures.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The peculiar requirement is an homage to Emma Stone’s character in the film, who is a bald-headed CEO who ends up kidnapped and suspected of being an alien.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His ball location has been erratic, and his decision-making still isn’t there.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Another investigation is looking into Tesla's limited Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, where passengers reported erratic driving and speeding — even with human safety drivers onboard.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Off-the-wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-the-wall. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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