The word "oddball" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to someone or something that is different from the others in some way. For example: He is an oddball amongst his friends, always making everyone laugh with his strange behavior.
You'd expect the possessor of a look like that to be an out-and-out comedy oddball, but it turns out that behind the beard is a more conventional kind of comic, albeit one whose instinctive mastery of his form immediately marks him out as one to watch.
As Alex and Miles reach out to shake hands from across a musical and aesthetic chasm, it's a neat sketch of the two worlds Slaves straddle: the oddball punk band mingling with the indie A-list.
One attorney general told a women who wished to keep her name that she was "an oddball", a "sick and confused woman", whose need was "not for a change of name but a competent psychiatrist".
It's all very well to experiment with something odd like banning yourself from the news or drinking small amounts of your own urine for a month, but longer term there's a danger of coming across like some kind of self-dramatising oddball.
THERE are some pretty creative oddball interpretations of minor provisions of the constitution circulating out there.
He was an oddball in the Conservative Party, then the Liberal Party and then the Conservative Party again, ratting on his loyalties twice.
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And when China bans oddball alternative investments, they plummet in price.
It sounds like just good husbandry except for the fact that Pluto Express would cost about half a billion dollars, and the space station will cost 200 times as much.Pluto is an oddball planet.
Up the staircase, on a wall near the prayer room, there is a funny mural, an oddball tribute to the services' faux-medieval past.
And Greene had an excellent ear for the oddities of speech, particularly among oddball men.
