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oddballs

NOUN

person who is very different

Synonyms

WEAK

case character duck eccentric fish out of water maverick misfit odd bird original rara avis screwball weirdo

Antonyms

WEAK

conservative normal

Example Sentences

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With its zesty appreciation for the city’s landscape of oddballs, menacing and disarming alike, “Tuner” has some similarity to one of last year’s best pictures, “Caught Stealing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

But the scenes she’s devised for these sympathetically difficult oddballs go nowhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Compared to the familiar moons of our Solar System, they would all be oddballs: at least twice the size of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System and therefore almost as big as Earth.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023

Some of his new employees were distinctly oddballs for an academic laboratory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik