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Freakish   Listen
adjective
Freakish  adj.  
1.
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. "It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two." "Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick."
2.
Rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather.
3.
Markedly abnormal.
Synonyms: freaky.





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"Freakish" Quotes from Famous Books



... day when freakish chance had thrown them together she had had no illusions concerning Felicity's ultimate destiny. It had surprised her not that Felicity was traveling the road, but that she had not long since arrived. She had not learned then ...
— Winner Take All • Larry Evans
... coming up with great frequency to the surface to breathe. And when one had once walked down the steps and found one's way into the tank, it was an extremely pleasant one, and quite artistic. It seemed original, too. There was something almost freakish in being answered by the parlourmaid (who was suitably like a fish in manner and profile), "Miss Luscombe is at home, and will you please step downstairs?" when one had rung the bell on the ground floor. ...
— The Limit • Ada Leverson
... close to the window of her room, when the signal came, but first she was not sure, because the sound was as faint as a memory. Moreover, it might have been a freakish whistling in the wind, which rose stronger and stronger. It had piled the thunder-clouds higher and higher, and now and again a heavy drop of rain tapped at her window ...
— Riders of the Silences • Max Brand
... and as I did so there flashed on me—in that sudden freakish way which the best ideas affect—a new and brilliant idea for the plot of My Tenant. The whole of the third and concluding act spread itself instantaneously before me. I knew then and there why the play had been laid aside. It had waited for this, and it wanted only this. I held the thing ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... From that silent world legions of grotesques move out of the shadows at a touch of sunlight, and then, when you turn on them in surprise, become thin and vague, either phantoms or smoke, and dissolve. The freakish light shows in little what happens in the long run to man's handiwork, for it accelerates the speed of change till change is fast enough for you to watch a town grow and die. You see that Dockland is unstable, is in flux, alters in colours and form. I doubt whether the people below are sensitive ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson


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