as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
she does have some off-the-wall suggestions about home decorating
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Recent Examples of off-the-wall
What’s your favorite off-the-wall rendition of a birthday anthem?
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O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
24 Apr. 2026
This was not a year for major turmoil in March or crazy off-the-wall selections by the committee.
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Tim Cowlishaw,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Mar. 2026
An inside, off-the-wall slant on independent filmmaking, this dark and daffy movie — the Grand Jury Prize winner in the Dramatic Competition — should be a winner on the art-house circuit but seems unlikely to crack into mainstream venues.
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Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
The video projections, costumes and lighting give evidence of many, many imaginations working overtime to find the perfect effect or the most off-the-wall design.
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Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for off-the-wall
O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
24 Apr. 2026
This was not a year for major turmoil in March or crazy off-the-wall selections by the committee.
—
Tim Cowlishaw,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Mar. 2026
An inside, off-the-wall slant on independent filmmaking, this dark and daffy movie — the Grand Jury Prize winner in the Dramatic Competition — should be a winner on the art-house circuit but seems unlikely to crack into mainstream venues.
—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
The video projections, costumes and lighting give evidence of many, many imaginations working overtime to find the perfect effect or the most off-the-wall design.
—
Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for off-the-wall
Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-the-wall
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When Aaron Paul’s Jeff attempts to make a suspicious deposit, the bank teller (a game Nina Dobrev) demands to be in on the deal, in the sort of neo-noir twist that could suggest a rich film world populated with bizarre freaks of all stripes.
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In the canon of DC Comics, Comet is truly a bizarre character.
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Watching improv is reliably funny because performers work without a script.
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But figuring out how to do all that while being funny at the same time?
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Informal Beyblade battles are popping up in strangest of places, with players huddling in parks, gyms and shopping malls.
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The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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So, that was kind of quite weird.
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But storefronts across the city have long been weird hodgepodges, rife with misspellings and aesthetic incoherence.
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Food also figured into other odd roadway incidents.
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Maternal Instinct lays out how Parker moved from a web of odd, though ultimately harmless lies about the fake pregnancy to killing her pregnant friend (Simmons-Hancock), and abducting her unborn fetus to present to her then-boyfriend, Wade Griffin, as their own.
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His perception of the situation in Germany is, to say the least, peculiar.
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The Oscar-winning actor playing Zorro is Jean Dujardin, whose run of awards accolades for The Artist remains one of those peculiar head-scratchers.
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Over the course of the space’s renovation, Richards said the construction attracted several curious lookie-loos, many of whom knew of Corvino and were eager to see what would replace it.
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Baffled rather than outraged, curious Kaho tries to uncover the meaning of his words.
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After cycling through erratic gigs—bus driver, garbage collector, violin maker—his carpentry skills landed him a job on an expedition vessel in Antarctica from 2006 to 2010.
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His social media posts became increasingly erratic.
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“Off-the-wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-the-wall. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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