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schräg (adj)
   odd, weird, suspicious; diagonal, oblique, slanted, sloping

Schräger als Fiktion (Film, 2006)
Stranger Than Fiction (movie, 2006)
«Mir ist er immer schräg vorgekommen», verkündete sie nach dem vierten Glas Sherry den begierig lauschenden Dörflern.
“Always thought he was odd,” she told the eagerly listening villagers, after her fourth sherry. (Harry Potter IV)

Related Words:
das Schrägdach pitched roof
der Schrägstrich (forward) slash (punctuation)
ein schräger Vogel an odd character, a strange bird

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