Sentence examples for a less odd from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a less odd" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the oddness of two or more things, indicating that one is not as odd as the other.
Example: "While both paintings are unusual, the second one is a less odd choice for the gallery."
Alternatives: "a more normal" or "a more typical".

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The Sundance Channel is preceding the special with an odd choice, "Biloxi Blues" (1988), Neil Simon's comedy about boot camp in Mississippi, at 5 p.m.; and a less odd one, "Playing for Change," a 2003 documentary about street musicians (some in New Orleans), at 6 45.

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It starts cheerily – "So, now you're dead" – and it never gets any less odd, building to a properly unhinged last 40 seconds.

If only he'd arrived a couple of centuries earlier, Bill Pullman might be considered, well, a little less odd.

That makes it a little less odd that the network will now have two series centered on fictitious New York police commissioners: "Blue Bloods," with Tom Selleck, and this new drama, with Theo James (star of the British horror series "Bedlam") as the youngest commissioner in the city's history.

I know my mother loves me, but she hates the word "queer" and really wishes I could be a little less odd too.

Although Floyd's manner of waving goodbye is a good deal less odd than Mrs Margaret Thompson of Boyle Street, Burlington Gardens, who left instructions to be buried with her dirty handkerchiefs and then body and handkerchiefs to be covered with 'Scottish snuff'.

The event, which raised more than $11 million and was attended by Hollywood A-listers like Will Smith and Amy Poehler, honored Michael Caine and Quincy Jones, a pairing that is less odd than it seems: the two men were apparently born seconds apart 80 years ago and are longtime friends.

She belted out her vocals in the sound booth while staring down a young but no less odd Mr. Spector.

Now "loudQUIETloud" offers a backstage pass to that legendary tour, and like most documentaries about bands (a genre only slightly less odd than songs about cinema), its chief appeal is to cultists.

By buying control of Pojistovna, VSZ thus regains control of a bank it helped to ruin.This is less odd than it seems in a country where the government has both ruined the financial system and used it to distort the economy.

Since the actors do many strange things in unison (chants, hand signals), their breaking into a precision dance is actually less odd than you might think.

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