The phrase "a peculiar man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is unusual or distinctive in behavior or appearance.
Example: "Everyone in the neighborhood knew him as a peculiar man, often seen talking to himself while walking his dog."
Alternatives: "an odd fellow" or "a strange individual."
Their landlord is a peculiar man who wanders in and out of their house, eating and sleeping there as though it were his own dwelling.
In 2009, an official at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art told Leininger that the museum had been paid a visit by a peculiar man.
On Hunting Hill Drive today, neighbors described Mr. Roll as a peculiar man who kept odd hours and acted strangely confident.
Yet he is not blind to the faults of his subject, whom he describes as "a peculiar man", a "mixture of visionary and fusspot" and a "shameless hypochondriac" who "fainted and howled in public".
Unlike En Garde Arts's last production, "Crowbar," which took place inside the abandoned Victory Theater on West 42d Street, "Father Was a Peculiar Man" will take the audience on a two-hour journey through four city blocks.
In the late 1960s he went into voluntary seclusion in New Hampshire and there he stayed, a peculiar man attracted to fringe religious movements, warding off interviewers, film people, fans, trespassers.
The version of A Most Peculiar Man on The Paul Simon Songbook is a gentle, echoey lament arranged purely for guitar.
But my favourite from this fertile time is A Most Peculiar Man, the understated story of a suicide that first appeared on Simon's little-heard 1965 solo debut The Paul Simon Songbook.
He starts the song taking their description of him as "a most peculiar man" at face value, but the phrase becomes more and more grimly ironic with each repetition as Simon runs through their evidence: that he lived alone, had no friends, "seldom spoke", that "he wasn't like them".
He was a very peculiar man.
In "Joseph Walser's Machine," the eponymous protagonist is a quiet and peculiar man who works in a factory operating a machine — we're never told what kind of factory, or what kind of machine — and loses a finger in a moment of distraction from his job.
