All 3 Uses of
eccentric
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- From this paradox, gentlemen, you can judge of the rest of our eccentric and paradoxical friend Ivan Fyodorovitch's theories."†
Chpt 2
- I would not, however, have dwelt on such trivial and irrelevant details, if this eccentric meeting of the young official with the by no means elderly widow had not subsequently turned out to be the foundation of the whole career of that practical and precise young man.†
Chpt 9 *
- Now we are either horrified or pretend to be horrified, though we really gloat over the spectacle, and love strong and eccentric sensations which tickle our cynical, pampered idleness.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits