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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oddly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪ I felt oddly naked without my watch, I always do.
▪ She has been feeling oddly lethargic all through the drills.
▪ Harriet waited until the door had closed after her and flicked the button, feeling oddly apprehensive.
▪ He was not pleased that he felt oddly fearful, like a child in a tale of a wicked stepmother.
▪ Then, feeling oddly guilty, as if just thinking about another man was betraying Paul, she pushed the romantic picture away.
▪ And he was still feeling oddly jet-lagged, shaking his head vigorously on occasion with some hope of clearing it.
▪ But she felt oddly detached from it, eager to be away from these happy people.
▪ Too many things were missing; something felt oddly out of place, like a picture hanging crooked on the wall.
look
▪ She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles, looking oddly like a bee with broken wings.
▪ One of the lenses in his little academic spectacles had acquired a crack, giving him an oddly look.
▪ They both looked oddly right for the part.
▪ She looked oddly disengaged as if she had been hypnotized.
seem
▪ Yet given the steamy circumstances, this whole shebang seems oddly passionless.
▪ Your comments seemed oddly incongruous compared with the analysts' reports I have read concerning Panda Project.
▪ While Timman played with impressive composure, Speelman seemed oddly distracted.
▪ The apartment seems oddly settled, especially since everything has been left largely as it was found.
▪ To most the passion seemed oddly misplaced.
▪ The stinging nettles and Luke Goddard seemed oddly connected in his mindand I thought I could half understand this.
▪ It seemed oddly perverse, in a humorous kind of way.
▪ Everyone seems oddly ready to judge.
shape
▪ There were footprints in the sawdust; and it seems to me, looking back, that some were oddly shaped.
▪ Shaw v. Hunt: Oddly shaped congressional districts are unconstitutional if they were designed in order to ensure black voting majorities.
▪ The style was motel-modern; instead of handsome, secure courtyards, Chambers had oddly shaped open spaces outdoors.
sit
▪ But Thursday's friendly gesture sat oddly with the government's ban on publishing the report.
▪ Such a rise in long-term rates sits oddly with still-scanty evidence of economic recovery.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
strangely/oddly/curiously etc enough
▪ And yet, strangely enough, he was.
▪ Everyone was hideously drunk except strangely enough myself.
▪ Her large grin and knotted black curls were, strangely enough, more memorable.
▪ It was a devastating headache but, oddly enough, as a rule he didn't mind it.
▪ Such basic work, oddly enough, has been largely neglected.
▪ The workers responded with hundreds of ideas and, oddly enough, management accepted and implemented many of them.
▪ Verence was right, oddly enough.
▪ Yet, strangely enough, it was Martinho the malais appeared to favour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Oddly enough, some of the best things about the broadcast were the commercials.
▪ an oddly dressed woman
▪ Brenda's response was oddly reassuring.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Vincent and his wife, Elena, know all the right people here in town, oddly enough.
▪ Feeling oddly bereft and desolate, besieged by Dolly's incessant chatter, Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel.
▪ Harriet waited until the door had closed after her and flicked the button, feeling oddly apprehensive.
▪ He is behaving oddly, oblivious to real-world political trade-offs, at his worst rather than his best.
▪ Nearby they find two oddly contrasting souvenirs, both keys to priceless treasures.
▪ She has been feeling oddly lethargic all through the drills.
▪ While Timman played with impressive composure, Speelman seemed oddly distracted.
▪ Without benefit of notes, visual aids, gestures or humor she spoke for ninety oddly mesmerizing minutes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oddly

Oddly \Odd"ly\, adv.

  1. In an odd manner; unevenly. [R.]

  2. In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously. ``A figure a little more oddly turned.''
    --Locke.

    A great black substance, . . . very oddly shaped.
    --Swift.

  3. (Math.) In a manner measured by an odd number.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oddly

c.1300, from odd + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
oddly

adv. 1 In an odd manner; unevenly. 2 In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously. 3 In a manner measured by an odd number.

WordNet
oddly

  1. adv. in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly" [syn: curiously, peculiarly]

  2. in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"; "he acted kind of funny" [syn: queerly, strangely, funnily, funny]

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Usage examples of "oddly".

During the last week or two Ward had obviously changed much, abandoning his attempts at affability and speaking only in hoarse but oddly repellent whispers on the few occasions that he ventured forth.

Lonely Hearts Club Band, they went for the ultimate reduction: The Beatles, an album title that, oddly enough, they had not used before.

In brief, Alkine had an oddly bedraggled appearance yet a kind of provocative challenge like a bird of prey which had been in several tough fights but was quite prepared to take on another.

A tree is a tree, anywhere and anywhen, no matter how intricate its branching or how oddly shaped its leaves and blossoms.

The light was more than sufficient, but the different colors in the bands caused the colors on the surface to seem distorted and oddly not quite right, and atmospherics further twisted it into odd wavy bands on the water.

She felt his hands, oddly clumsy and uncoordinated, on the silk of the bandeau, and then her breasts were once more covered.

Thus it was that a small, begrimed and oddly shaped seaman with a clubbed foot strolled with another who was tall and handsome to a fault, but who limped and leaned on a crooked staff.

They produced several oddly shaped, roughly globular tents and some equally odd foot stores, which bn Bem assured Spock he and the others could eat.

Now she found it lacking, an oddly empty, circumscribed happiness bound up in self-indulgence and personal gratification, bereft of interest in or concern for others, ultimately puzzling and somehow sad.

A pale, beautiful, unhuman face, matching exactly the almost naked body, dark white and slender, which, even in its fawnskin loincloth, breastless and male, was oddly hermaphrodite, an enticement to either or any sex.

Oddly enough, the footman normally stationed near the front door had disappeared, forcing Brock to return to the vestibule.

Strangely enough, once the thing was done, she whispered, her soft mouth close against his ear, and again he caught the wanton scent of chypre so oddly out of place.

Soward Hospital bore a strange resemblance to its oddly shaped cnidarian receiving clerk.

Then, about to draw back from the window, she saw five men, oddly foreshortened figures from that lofty coign of view, leave the Red Moon by one of its bar entrances, bearing between them a heavy beam of wood, and with this improvised battering-ram aimed at the door to the besieged house, charge awkwardly across the cobbles.

The young girl tilted her head sideways, regarding Kit with the air of the practiced coquette, her mannerisms vaguely familiar and oddly disconcerting.