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“He was looking up at the sky, his profile strong, his expression uncharacteristically vulnerable.”
“Like watching paint dry" – John Kear in uncharacteristically ungracious mood after his Wakefield team had been drubbed at Wigan on Easter Monday.”
“Indeed, neither Bryant's much-parodied photo shoot nor out-there teammate Ron Artest's Twitter postings criticizing coach Phil Jackson have obscured the fact that the Lakers, who closed the regular season in uncharacteristically mediocre fashion and then had to scrap like mad to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in a first-round playoff series, are seemingly righting themselves and closing in on a chance to defend their NBA title.”
Lakers righting the ship, sizing up sweep of Jazz in playoffs
“Yet why do I suspect that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, poseurs du jour, will remain uncharacteristically silent? pseudonymous in nc Says:”
“The photo of Obama is dark, his expression uncharacteristically menacing -- eyes narrowed and lips pinched in a grimace.”
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“Oliver, uncharacteristically, is overcome with paternal feeling, and vows to stay by his son’s side until he gets better …”
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“He moved closer, his expression growing uncharacteristically serious.”
“Slow (or was it Slower?) recognized my dilemma uncharacteristically quickly.”
“My grandmother uncharacteristically was a heavy smoker all her life and she was seventeen when she married.”
“Even in the dimness, Rachel could see his expression was uncharacteristically grave.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘uncharacteristically’.
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A-R-A Words
It's an odd-looking pattern in English. Please add words if it makes you happy. :) K-POW! Wow @gulyasrobi!
scarab, Arawak, Sahara, Arab, pharaoh, caravan, carat, parachute, arachnid, Saran Wrap, Sarah, tarantella and 492 more...
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20-Letter BigWords
A list of words that each contain twenty (20) letters, beginning with compartmentalization.
Writers of English fond of concise phrases and apt one-syllable Anglo-Saxon nouns and verbs ...compartmentalization, antiparliamentarians, ultramicroscopically, contradistinguishing, radiotelegraphically, psychopathologically, electrocardiographic, overapprehensiveness, hydrotherapeuticians, neurophysiologically, incomprehensibleness, microminiaturization and 183 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, counterrevolution..., counterrevolutionary, electroencephalogram, electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., institutionalisation, institutionalization and 634 more...
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Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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exquisite's Words
trust, melancholic, uncharacteristically, pule, idioglossia, incandescence, ephemeral, zine, despondent, shrub, incandescent, lepidoptera and 37 more...
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bilby "I don't appear in Tom Swift: The Movie," said Tom uncharacteristically. Dec 14, 2007