outre
Example Sentences
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Like such previously outré Lanthimos features as “Dogtooth,” “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “The Lobster,” the movie is a bleak comedy that generates severe discomfort amid its absurdity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
Without food, Bong’s work would lose the indelible humanity that even his most outré, provocative films hold as a point of pride.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
But not all of Marlon’s brainstorms were so outré, and here is the Brando’s principal innovative success.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
But where Pizzolatto’s “True Detective” stories were essentially traditional noirs with a gloss of pop psychology and horror-movie sensationalism, López commits fully to the outré and the supernatural.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
I have had one of the most outré conversations with him!—He really has a most prodigious effect upon my risibility.
From The Contrast by Moses, Montrose Jonas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
