Crossword Dictionary
oddly
curiously, oddly, peculiarly - r
in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly"
synonyms
strangely, weirdly, peculiarly, unusually, extraordinarily, funnily, uncommonly, abnormally, queerly, atypically, irregularly, anomalously, untypically, radically
in a sentence
the house's oddly shaped roof
Their lives had been oddly similar.
One of the others sharing that rank, oddly enough, was 2004′s Hurricane Charley.
Courtship rituals are personal, oddly specific, and constantly changing.
Could this case study — oddly specific yet generic — ever be anything but bizarre?
etymology
late 14c., "remarkably, exquisitely, extremely, very; completely," from odd + -ly (2). Meaning "strangely, in an odd manner" is from c. 1600.