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
Suddenly, all the doubts about “The Substance” being too outré for Oscar voters went up in smoke.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025
Before the internet, before the spicy comments sections on Instagram and Twitter or the outré subcultures on TikTok, like-minded strangers connected through zines.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024
But now these were detestable, horridly outré, and so barbarously antique, that I could only appear as Rembrandt's Wife, or some such relic of ancient history.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
