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conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit
famed for his eccentric spelling
outre and affected stage antics
his off-the-wall antics
the outlandish clothes of teenagers
a freakish combination of styles
How To Use off-the-wall In A Sentence
- Singin' in the Rain: "Make 'Em Laugh" (Donald O'Connor, many pratfalls, also that whole backflipping-off-the-walls thing), "Moses Supposes" (O'Connor and Kelly harass a specialist in elocution), part of the "Broadway Melody" (not really my favorite ballet sequence, but I'll sometimes watch Kelly's pas de deux with Cyd Charisse) Music
- You're always good at coming up with the off-the-wall idea that nobody else gives house room to. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- his off-the-wall antics
- Use it to create rapidly repeating musical phrases, grungy riffs, retro computer game effects, rolling basslines, off-the-wall rhythmic patterns, dub sirens, weird sci-fi effects, plus sounds yet undiscovered .... MATRIXSYNTH
- I'm sort of put off by people who make their livings--and I'm beginning to sound like my ancient mentor of the moment, Charles Ives--off of fiction and then claim to be reality philosophers and therefore the only observers able to fairly understand why multitudes of world folk follow the foolish and deadly biases and fears, off-the-wall platitudes, and alchemistic sciences of ancient imagination, an uneducated imagination. Books Again
- Don't criticize awkwardness or off-the-wall suggestions.
- Each package includes the new "Diana Vignettes, More True Tales & Short Stories" book which has over 200 pages of Diana history, Diana+ images as well as truly off-the-wall fictional stories. Image-Acquire.com
- It can be done without following some absurd, off-the-wall investment strategy.
- Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall. Last Words
- He's always been a cryptic songwriter, fond of oblique references and catchy off-the-wall phrasings, but here his metaphors and jests are haunted with regret and suspicion.
