Eccentrically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an eccentric manner.

    "The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls."

Adverb
  1. 1
    not symmetrically with respect to the center wordnet
  2. 2
    in an eccentric or bizarre manner wordnet

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at randombroadlyfitfullyhaltinglyhumorouslyintermittently

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"The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls."

Etymology

From eccentric + -ally.

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