What is "uncharacteristically"

Usage examples of "uncharacteristically".

Switters considered a similar, perhaps synchronous indulgence but decided instead to review the prophecies, about which he maintained, not altogether uncharacteristically, ambivalent feelings.

Now, surrounded by his so-called soldiers at every turn, and even forbidden to smoke by an uncharacteristically solicitous Fearchar, who claimed her habit was dangerous and unhealthful, she was beginning to realize he would never come around and that it was she, in fact, who was being humored.

For a man of such strong feelings and great inner tensions, these were days of extreme stress, during which he remained uncharacteristically silent, as Benjamin Waterhouse would recall in a telling description of Adams the morning he set off for The Hague, nine miles distant.

Barnacle Bill was uncharacteristically untipsy, and Maximus got into the spirit of the occasion, growling and clawing bloodthirstily but performing as tamely and willingly as a dog.

George, whose meek nature was consistent with his expertise in Sara Teasdale, fought the onset of his coma with uncharacteristically tigerlike strength.

Martians valued physical prowess, so pairing this physically striking Venutian with such an uncharacteristically puny Martian gave the Venutian expert the advantage.

Uncharacteristically, he floundered, his search for the correct procedures for dealing with such a matter being grievously disturbed by visions of what he intended to do to Welt and Bryk when this was all done with.

A DRAGON IN THE LAND OF DRAGONS, as The New fork Times had uncharacteristically blurbed it If we could just get the dragon to eat its own tail .

He was also dressed uncharacteristically butchly in a studded leather jacket, and black jeans belted with a large silver buckle.

In one room the two Docs were kept, one characteristically standing immobile, the other very uncharacteristically lying on a pallet on the floor, with two or three medics hovering around.

He was uncharacteristically silent, his eyes on the fire, until Carlot said, “Dad?

Though Mahmoud was sweating heavily, he was uncharacteristically calm, even when the newer, faster Peugeots and Fiats passed them on the divided highway.

He's monologuing between sips--in an uncharacteristically subdued fashion.

Hatch, uncharacteristically oversleeping, dashed out the door of 5 Ocean Lane and hurried down the front walk, stopping only to grab Friday's neglected mail from the box before heading for the pier.

Brooke Greer, a screenwriter greatly esteemed within her genre, the action adventure-romantic comedy, also a person of remarkable wit, insight, and bodily charm, and as he sped homeward down the handsome stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway below the Malibu Canyon exit he yielded to an uncharacteristically edgy spell of gloom.