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Definition of eccentrically:

  • (adverb) In an eccentric or bizarre manner

Sentence Examples:

The telescope is generally placed eccentrically, which permits the instrument to be made of very low form.

Forest, she might leave, he refrained, thinking that very often people who talked eccentrically were very practical.

There is a story told of his Oxford days which shows how eccentrically his theories converted themselves into conduct.

Of all eccentrically planned things, from Bradshaw to the maze at Hampton Court, that room was the most eccentric.

Once again he leaped into the air waving his fore legs and eccentrically descended to charge with fury his telegraph pole.

Very rarely in such a case would it be possible to retire eccentrically by the same roads which were used for advance.

When the chambers do not align perfectly, the bullet enters the barrel eccentrically and a portion of it is shaved off.

I should not be so eccentrically spontaneous with these people, if they did not feed my sense of humor by their amazement.

All the possible points of view, were, so to speak, piled upon each other, and one caught glimpses of some eccentrically across others.

As its orbit is also eccentrically placed in relation to the earth's orbit, it follows that its nearest distance from us in any particular years may vary greatly.

The latter could be turned about a horizontal axis placed eccentrically, so that the height through which the hammer fell and the consequent force of the blow could be regulated.

The position was rather one for a fortress than for a chapel; but no doubt Englishmen of an eccentrically religious turn appeared as early as the thirteenth or fourteenth century, if not earlier.

This narrow end commonly displays a sharp, projecting, beak-like spine, which, at its base, constantly rests upon the center of the pole of the shell, but occasionally it is eccentrically placed.

The effect to the staring guard, Thorn realized, must be that of seeing a queer, fine dust column moving eccentrically over a grassy lawn where no dust column had any business to be.