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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



... Nature is strangely freakish in her choice of instruments for noble purposes. Sometimes the delicate spirit of creative genius is housed in a veritable tenement of clay, so that what is within seems ever at war with what is without. At times the antagonism is more ...
— A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy • George Sampson
... watch, 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 ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... courtesy. He had no welcome for this stranger, and somehow he felt that he did not altogether understand Narcissa at times; that she had flights of fancy which were beyond him, and took a mischievous pleasure in tantalizing him, and was freakish and hard ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... said, for my wife to object to my lodging in the same house with her here, any more than in town, at Mrs. Sinclair's. But were she to make such objection, I would not quit possession since it was not unlikely that the same freakish disorder which brought her to Hampstead, might carry her absolutely out ...
— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... 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 high and higher, and now and again a heavy drop of rain tapped at her window like ...
— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick


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