worthless word for the day is: heteroclite

the worthless word for the day is: heteroclite

[fr. Gk heteroklitos, irregularly inflected]
/HET ur uh klyt/
1) Gram. irregularly inflected
2) fig. [a] abnormal, anomalous, off the beaten
path [n] obs. a person or thing that fits such
description; a maverick

"Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew..."
- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun (1997)

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I thought it was something fun and naughty at first glance.
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"I am acutely aware that this thesis will meet
with some resistance because it is still somewhat
unfashionable to assert that any work of literature,
no less a work as complex and heteroclite as
Ulysses, can be approached as having established
a fixed center.. that governs its meaning."
- Stephen Sicari, Twentieth Century Lit. Fall, 1997

"Our Parliament would affect to be an heteroclite to
all other parliaments."
- Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality (1792)