1 in a strange or unusual way:
She's been behaving very oddly lately. * oddly coloured clothes * He looked at her in a way she found oddly disturbing.
2 used to show that sth is surprising:
She felt, oddly, that they had been happier when they had no money. * Oddly enough, the most expensive tickets sold fastest.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for oddly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is oddly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, oddly is tagged as adverb.
Does oddly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — oddly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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