outre

If it's something a bit out there, it might not place at all, simply because outre is a hard sell.

Do Not Submit to Narrative Magazine Hal Duncan 2009

Billboards invariably depict svelte females in outre poses.

Greece bans sexy roadside ads to prevent deaths Jonathan 2007

Billboards invariably depict svelte females in outre poses.

Archive 2007-06-01 Jonathan 2007

For those of us with a penchant for the grisly and outre, that is very good news indeed.

"Full Dark, No Stars," four novellas by horror writer Stephen King Bill Sheehan 2010

The idea that his cut was not fashionable enough made him alter everything half a dozen times, walk all the way to the town simply to study the dandies, and in the end dress us in suits that even a caricaturist would have called outre and grotesque.

The Wife 2004

One of her recipes, the Jumbleberry Grunt, sounds like some kind of outre sex act.

Archive 2005-10-01 Tripp 2005

But to fall in love, if indeed it were so, with a man who not only had ideas, but an inclination to live up to them, and on them, and on nothing else, seemed to Lord Dennis 'outre'.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Twain; the imp of the burlesque, tempting him to do the 'outre', the outlandish, the shocking thing.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

If what I have here written appear nonsense to you, or common sense in a harlequinade of "outre" expressions, suspend your judgment till we see each other.

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

This sounds too ridiculous and 'outre', almost, for the stage; and yet, take my word for it, you will frequently meet with it upon the common stage of the world.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733