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Freakishly

Freakish \Freak"ish\, a. 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.
--L'Estrange.

Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.
--Pope.

2. rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather.

3. markedly abnormal.

Syn: freaky. [PJC] -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

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freakishly

adv. In a freakish manner.

WordNet
freakishly

adv. unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly variable" [syn: capriciously]

Usage examples of "freakishly".

A ten-year-old freakishly tall bow-tied and thick-spectacled citizen of the.

Lenz had, freakishly enough, ended up her human pinballing with her bare and unspeakably huge backside wedged tight in the open window of the potty, so forcefully ensconced into the recesstacle that she was unable to extricate, and the bus continued on its northward sojourn the rest of the way up 24 with Mrs.

As freakishly as they could, the Baudelaire orphans walked in, taking a few steps closer to all those staring eyes, and a few steps further from the lives they were leaving behind.

The two older Baudelaires walked freakishly over to the pole, but when they reached the switches Violet frowned and shook her head.

There was no one on the streets, or freakishly few, and those who there were went heads down.

Like any freakishly big, eyeless, normal baby who never pooped or ate or cried.

Apparently issues were complicated by the fact that Madame Psychosis emerged from puberty as an almost freakishly beautiful young woman, especially in a part of the United States where poor nutrition and indifference to dentition and hygiene made physical beauty an extremely rare and sort of discomfiting condition, one in no way shared by Madame Psychosis's toothless and fireplug-shaped mother, who said not a word as Madame Psychosis's father interdicted everything from brassieres to Pap smears, addressing the nubile Madame Psychosis in progressively puerile baby-talk and continuing to use her childhood diminutive like Pookie or Putti as he attempted to dissuade her from accepting a scholarship to a Boston University whose Film and Film-Cartridge Studies Program was, he apparently maintained, full of quote Nasty Pootem Wooky Barn-Bams, unquote, whatever family-code pejorative this signified.

The outside button on Lew's cuff had freakishly caught in the man's lapel button hole, twisted around in some way.

The universal mission is to catch one of those freakishly big bass known as lunkers or hawgs.