oddity

The gentle, erudite soul within a body the public considered an oddity is the contrast at the heart of “The Elephant Man.”

Africa was supposedly a place to avoid or, at best, an oddity to pity.

To that end, they partnered with oddity website Atlas Obscura over the summer to host “The School of Transgressive Placemaking.”

First oddity: power, open restaurants, people not in panic mode.

Beaching of the oarfish is a very rare occurrence—the last time it happened was 2010—so two in one week is certainly an oddity.

An oddity in the new series will be the absence of the faces of Washington and Franklin.

Not until she had almost reached it did Mrs. Quayle realize the oddity of the structure towards which she had been racing.

Struck by the oddity of the response, Careless began to think that a friend was at hand.

She had recognised the oddity of her adventure and left it to show for what it was.

Jimmy was so struck with the oddity of this procedure in a sleeping man that he burst into a peal of laughter.