All 8 Uses of
eccentric
in
This Side of Paradise
- Later, however, he lost his mind and ran madly up the street, bumping into fences, rolling in gutters, and pursuing his eccentric course out of Amory's life.†
Chpt 1.1
- Those qualities for which he had suffered, his moodiness, his tendency to pose, his laziness, and his love of playing the fool, were now taken as a matter of course, recognized eccentricities in a star quarter-back, a clever actor, and the editor of the St. Regis Tattler: it puzzled him to see impressionable small boys imitating the very vanities that had not long ago been contemptible weaknesses.†
Chpt 1.1
- "I do believe he's a bit eccentric."†
Chpt 1.2
- I was beginning to think I was growing eccentric till I came up here.†
Chpt 1.3
- The illiterate athletes like Langueduc think he's getting eccentric, but they just say, 'Good old Burne has got some queer ideas in his head,' and pass on—the Pharisee class—Gee! they ridicule him unmercifully."†
Chpt 1.4
- "You're getting a reputation for being eccentric," said Alec, laughing, "if that's what you mean."†
Chpt 1.4
- bringing the most eccentric characters to dinner,
Chpt 1.4 *eccentric = unconventional or strange
- Gillespie after several cocktails was in a talkative mood; he began by telling Amory that he was sure Rosalind was slightly eccentric.†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits