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  • adjective Obsolete form of unusual.

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Examples

  • My Sister Quin is actually named Quinzhaddhi (My dad was on a bad acid trip and wanted a name as unusuall as mine * dead serious* for the new baby)

    When Mary Ain't Good Enough 2007

  • It iz a bit. . .unusuall . . .to hav so menee wimmens dansing nekkind heer.

    When vacume cleaners go bad - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • You know that if you and your buddies stood a 1:8 or 1:4 chance of being raped you would certainly find it pressing to know not only the causes, but the larger social motivation behind such cruel and unusuall social behavior.

    The 1 in 4 distortion: Where did it come from? 2004

  • Calandrino watched all the next night following, with such preparation as he could make, onely to catch a Bat; which being taken at the last, he broght it alive to Bruno (with all the other materials appointed) who taking him alone into a backer Chamber, there hee wrote divers follies on the Parchment, in the shape of strange and unusuall

    The Decameron 2004

  • You know that if you and your buddies stood a 1:8 or 1:4 chance of being raped you would certainly find it pressing to know not only the causes, but the larger social motivation behind such cruel and unusuall social behavior.

    The 1 in 4 distortion: Where did it come from? 2004

  • Panuccio, yawning and stretching out his limbes, with unusuall groanes and respirations, such as (better) could bee hardly dissembled: seemed to wake as out of a traunce, and calling his friend Adriano, said.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Most noble Lady, the Gods forbid (if it be so as you have sayd) that I should (Villain-like) soile the honour of him, that takes such unusuall compassion of my unchaste appetite.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The Servingman, discoursing with the Gentlemen on divers occasions, guided them by such unusuall passages, as (before they could discerne it) he brought them to his Masters house; where so soone as Thorello saw them arrived, he went forth to meet them, assuring them all of most hearty welcome.

    The Decameron 2004

  • It is then succeeded by an unusuall/y/severe headache, with excessive pains about the loins and spinal column, which presently will spread over the shoulder-blades, and, running up the neck, find a final lodgment in the back and front of the head.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • He had an unusuall aspecte, which though it might naturally proceede both from his father and mother, nether of which were beautifull persons, yett made men thinke ther was somewhat in him of extraordinary, and his whole life made good that imagination.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

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