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eccentric English

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eccentric

If something is eccentric, it is not placed at or in the centre of something. If a person is eccentric, they have a strange behavior.

eccentric

An eccentric is a person who does not behave like others. A circle not having the same centre as another.

eccentric

(= bizarre, freakish, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit famed for his eccentric spelling a freakish combination of styles his off-the-wall antics the outlandish clothes of teenagers outre and affected stage antics a person with an unusual or odd personality not having a common center; not concentric eccentric circles (= character, type, case) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) a real character a strange character a friendly eccentric the capable type a mental case

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Simple sentences

Many scientists have the reputation of being eccentric.
Tom is rather eccentric.
Tom is eccentric.
Tom is a bit eccentric.
This eccentric billionaire has amassed one of the world's largest art collections.
He is known for his eccentric conduct.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Movie subtitles

Eccentric?
A little eccentric, but a swell.
You're a bit eccentric, aren't you?
If it is eccentric to be impatient in love, sir, I am.
Well, of course, Cyrus was somewhat eccentric.
Yeah, you said he was eccentric.
You know, Mr. Norman was a very eccentric man, and I've just made a discovery.
He just seemed eccentric, but harmless.
The fact that she wants to live alone at Dark Oaks may be eccentric, but that's all.
Well, Father was very eccentric.
When I placed you with Mr. Fogg a fortnight ago. I warned you that he was an eccentric.
An eccentric, Mr. Hesketh-Baggott?
Of course, I'm not an engineering man, but it seems this eccentric is malaligned.
A little eccentric, but don't dismiss his opinions too lightly.
We are so accustomed to the wonderful character actor Henry Travers being cast as a whimsical, bemused benign person, often slightly eccentric, that it's curious here to see him playing seemingly straight and sombre.
I have an eccentric interest in the linings of purses, it's (unintelligible).
I'll assume the character of an eccentric art collector.
This man's mad. An eccentric collector.
Mr. Ordway is slightly eccentric but that shouldn't trouble you.
All inventors are like that, they are eccentric.
Your Uncle was quite an eccentric. He didn't believe in banks.
He's eccentric. he's poor.
He's not eccentric.
New laws, no concubines, even two eccentric Englishwomen.
Upon going through his papers, a sensational will for this eccentric man was found to the effect that the person in whose arms he would happen to die was to become the sole heir to his enormous fortune.
Sounds eccentric but I can afford to be.
You can't afford to be eccentric.
I can't afford to be eccentric.
Now, if he should appear eccentric, or. or strange in any way, take no notice.
Later, after he got sick, he became more and more eccentric, and I felt empty, at a loss.
Drinker, collects paintings. Eccentric. Clock phobia, glib talker.
Your Uncle was quite an eccentric.
You'll think I'm an eccentric.
Mrs. De Matteis must have been a strange woman. slightly eccentric.
Roger, I admit she's eccentric, but she's not a thief.
He was not aware at the time that Mr. Turner was an eccentric. who carried concrete in his suitcases.
He's just outspoken and a bit eccentric.

News and current affairs

Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never dream of doing.
He was no longer a pariah, but an eccentric partner.
Autism is no longer seen as an extremely disabling condition, and many creative and normally eccentric people have discovered their inner autistic self.
Similarly, screening for loose, eccentric thinking yields mostly individuals who never become psychiatrically disordered.
The line between angry political extremism or eccentric normality and delusional mental disorder is tricky to draw.

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