Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being freakish; capriciousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun marked strangeness or abnormality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic or quality of being
freakish
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- noun marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
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Examples
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A lack of faith that change can come to the outside world … The desperate, grasping, and controlling way so many women go about the job of motherhood, turning energy that used to demand social change inward into control-freakishness, is our hallmark as a generation.
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A lack of faith that change can come to the outside world … The desperate, grasping, and controlling way so many women go about the job of motherhood, turning energy that used to demand social change inward into control-freakishness, is our hallmark as a generation.
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It was something more than the freakishness which is engendered by a sickening monotony that had led Lady Constantine thus far, and hence she made no ado about admitting herself.
Two on a Tower 2006
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It was something more than the freakishness which is engendered by a sickening monotony that had led
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884
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Carnivals bad people monkeys original research blog buddies journal club medicine snow camping creationism exercise apes education publishing book review atheism blog wars freakishness kayaking travel virology communication competition gardening plagues conferences movie review the 2009 baby boom video
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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It works to provoke our horror, our fear, by parading the people it features as freaks, and then reassures us with that very freakishness.
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Carnivals bad people monkeys original research blog buddies journal club medicine snow camping creationism exercise apes education publishing book review atheism blog wars freakishness kayaking travel virology communication competition gardening plagues conferences movie review the 2009 baby boom video
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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For here were the accouterments of a domesticity completely at odds with the overall freakishness of circumstance.
Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011
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Carnivals bad people monkeys original research blog buddies journal club medicine snow camping creationism exercise apes education publishing book review atheism blog wars freakishness kayaking travel virology communication competition gardening plagues conferences movie review the 2009 baby boom video
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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