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unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits
- She well knew how eccentric he seemed to others; he seemed so to her, for that matter.3 — Answer (28% in)
eccentric = unconventional or strange
- The Deweys, parents of two young boys, had been married seventeen years, and Marie, a Louisiana-born former F.B.I, stenographer, whom he'd met while he was stationed in New Orleans, sympathized with the hardships of his profession-the eccentric hours, the sudden calls summoning him to distant areas of the state.2 — Persons Unknown (13% in)
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