Synonyms for oddball
ˈɒdˌbɔlodd·ball

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1. eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geeknoun

   a person with an unusual or odd personality

   Synonyms:
   character, bit, eccentric, case, type, snowflake, chip, fleck, flake, scrap, geek, eccentric person

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How to use oddball in a sentence?

1. Lynne Spears:

   I have an amazing song right now with one of the most brilliant men of Elton John.Britney Spears teams time and I'm so grateful, but if you're a weird, if you're a weird introvert oddball like me, who feels alone a lot of the time and you needed to hear a story like this today so you don't feel alone, know this : my life has been far from easy and you're not alone.

2. Michael Rainey:

   Maybe this one farm is an oddball in Maine, but without further testing, there's no way to be sure.

3. Sarah Cochran:

   Muslims hate Republicans these days, and Republicans hate Muslims, so, it's really difficult to be a Muslim Republican. I'm a bit of an oddball.

4. Jason Poole:

   Oddball dinosaurs tend to offer insight into the extremes of dinosaur evolution. The more specimens the better to understand how they got to be so odd, i think this study is a good one to keep the ball rolling but more work is always needed to get a better picture of the life of something so strange and far removed in time.

5. Charles Kilpatrick:

   Unlike its normal behavior right after it exploded, the hydrogen interaction revealed it's kind of this oddball supernova, but it's exceptional that we were able to find its progenitor star in Hubble data. In four or five years, I think we will be able to learn more about what happened.