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Vinony

outré

adjective

  1. violating convention or propriety : bizarre
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /uˈtɹeɪ/

adj

Etymology: French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”).

  1. Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.

    “I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!”

    “He hated people who did not know where to stop. Ernest was always so outré and strange; there was never any knowing what he would do next, except that it would be something unusual and silly.”

  2. Very unconventional.

    “1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261, To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.”