Outlandishly

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outlandish \Out*land"ish\, a. [AS. [=u]tlendisc foreign. See
     {Out}, {Land}, and {-ish}.]
     1. Foreign; not native. [archaic]
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              Him did outlandish women cause to sin. --Neh. xiii.


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              Its barley water and its outlandish wines. --G. W.
                                                    Cable.
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     2. Hence: Deviating conspicuously from common practice;
        strange; freakish; bizarre; rude; barbarous; uncouth;
        clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech; --
        usually used in a negative sense.
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              Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with
              ordinary fashion.                     --Hawthorne.
        [1913 Webster] --{Out*land"ish*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outlandishly
       adv : in an outlandish manner; "the Bavarian was outlandishly
             dressed in lederhosen"