odd trait

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"This explains the origins of such an odd trait."

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

In no area does this odd trait show itself as starkly as in the legislatures' ceaseless squabbling over the designation of "official" animals, birds, fishes, minerals, poems, songs and flowers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems, indeed, an odd trait of the humorist that he can at will wholly discard his gaiety, and, like the Pied Piper, pipe to another measure.

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith

This little incident shows the susceptibility to outside influences which formed such an odd trait in the character of a man so imperious by nature.

From Daniel Webster by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Now it is an odd trait of certain mild people that a suspicion of threat, a hint of bullying, will rouse some unsuspected obstinacy deep down in their souls.

From Huntingtower by Buchan, John