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Discover LudwigThe word "Eccentric" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone or something that is unconventional or slightly strange in behavior or appearance. Example: "Her eccentric fashion sense always turned heads at the gallery openings."
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Eccentric
adjective
Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
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On these pages last week, Professor John Sutherland made some eccentric observations, including some about the government's plans for higher education, but he misrepresents what we value and how we will support that.
Despite the typically eccentric "insects in order of appearance" at the end credits, they are all CGI.
We are on set of the movie Frank, an eccentric comedy about an eccentric rock band led by a man who has wandered off the spectrum of eccentricity and into mental illness.
The Day of the Horse holiday was started by Berdymukhamedov's late predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, an eccentric dictator who renamed the months after members of his family and erected a golden statue of himself that revolved to reflect the sun.
Much of the novel takes place in 1990, and follows Scottish student Prentice McHoan, and his large, and extremely eccentric, family.
Yet that said, football has its fair share of ground-baggers, badge hunters and nutcases, cricket does not have a monopoly on the summer sporting eccentric.
Against all financial odds, the UK dance scene is still thriving; it is creative and adventurous, improvisatory and eccentric.
If they are to level the series at the ground where they lost the initiative in 2005, they want Hughes to rediscover his eccentric skills quickly and bring authority back to the top of a batting lineup of considerable potential but which has clicked with conviction only occasionally this summer.
In 1973, a local eccentric was thinking of a way to capitalise on the summer tourist traffic heading to the Top of the World Highway.
Just a few years ago, when Bingu wa Mutharika was at his most eccentric, this was not a foregone conclusion.
No, De Pijp wasn't exactly picturesque compared to the canal district, but that was made up for by its lively and eccentric population.
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