1
: in an odd manner
2
: as is odd
was quite happy, oddly enough
Examples of oddly in a Sentence
the house's oddly shaped roof
Their lives had been oddly similar.
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Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 2 Apr. 2025
Sorting the correct size was not straightforward, as the Italian tires on the truck were oddly proportioned and on metric measurements.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
However oddly this may strike you at first, that fresh breeze from the East has the effect of blowing away the cobwebs, giving her renderings the immediacy and wit of the original.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
However, despite the market turmoil in America, some regions of the world oddly benefit from the Trump administration’s change in geopolitical strategy.
—Garth Friesen, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddly. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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oddly
adverb
odd·ly
ˈäd-lē 
1
: in an odd manner
was behaving oddly
2
: as is odd
liked the work, oddly enough
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