What's the difference between freakish and monstrous?

Freakish


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sunderland might concede this was freakish as well.
  • (2) They can pitch , both in the starting rotation, which has been special over the last two seasons, and in the bullpen, one which will have to deal with the unfortunate and freakish loss of Aroldis Chapman, who broke facial bones after being hit by a screeching come backer.
  • (3) On kicking a boot into David Beckham's face in 2003 "It was a freakish incident.
  • (4) Although Watson is considered extremely raw in terms of his knowledge and understanding of the game, his freakish physical attributes dazzled the league's talent evaluators.
  • (5) Two offsides and a set-piece,” Manuel Pellegrini, the City manager, complained, as he sought to play up the freakish nature of the result and absolve his goalkeeper and central defenders.
  • (6) I think it's pretty freakish for ribs to be showing.
  • (7) IA: It bothers me a lot, because I've become really freakish.
  • (8) One, John Bryant, said it was a "freakish event" that "doesn't make any sense".
  • (9) Patterson has freakish athleticism but runs sloppy routes and his work ethic has been questioned.
  • (10) Manchester City have an addiction to making life more difficult for themselves than it might be but they raised the bar here to freakish new heights.
  • (11) It is a target that has been hit with freakish accuracy, especially given some of the big picture economic thrills and spills over that time.
  • (12) Consign Egg Cuber and its freakish progeny to hell.
  • (13) Chip’s freakishness, that drew to some extent from my own sense of freakishness.
  • (14) However, assuming a more stringent standard of safety, based on continuous exposure to mercury vapour, it was noted that some of the readings could be considered to be excessive, although these were of a freakish and transient nature.
  • (15) When they started the season without phenom Manny Machado and lost him again to a freakish August injury .
  • (16) Britain's total personal, corporate and government debt is substantially worse than Italy's, but the bond markets now freakishly rate London a safe haven, with the interest rate on gilts falling to 2.1%, just a smidgen over German bunds.
  • (17) Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the north-east US to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often.
  • (18) And to discover that these things that I thought were freakish parts of my history and my personality – people were saying, ‘Oh, someone’s writing about me!
  • (19) I think this was all a plan to discombobulate Rough Copy with such a freakishly high level of cognitive dissonance that they forget to wear those silly plastic trousers.
  • (20) The same had happened, he suggested, in all their league defeats this term bar the loss at Aston Villa in their previous away game that he will always insist was born of a freakishly poor performance from the referee.

Monstrous


Definition:

  • (a.) Marvelous; strange.
  • (a.) Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
  • (a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
  • (a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
  • (a.) Abounding in monsters.
  • (adv.) Exceedingly; very; very much.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: “Al-Jazeera as an editorial product and an employer is by no means above criticism, but that does not make the call for its closure any less monstrous.
  • (2) as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center'" – but if they were monstrous they were also, necessarily, human.
  • (3) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
  • (4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
  • (5) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
  • (6) I have seen generations of children with their familiar, monstrous deformities .
  • (7) Ultrasonic treatment results in the appearance of monstrous embryos that die at the latest stages of their development.
  • (8) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
  • (9) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
  • (10) Prosecutors called Gibbs "monstrous" and "savage" and told the military jury he should never be released from prison.
  • (11) Both cell types fuse again to form the monstrous MGC (more than 1 mm in diameter) widely extended on the implant surface.
  • (12) The Celtics took a 2-1 series lead and made a monstrous statement against their younger opponents.
  • (13) Not only the monstrous anger of the guns nor the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle, but now an epic four-minute, eye-wateringly expensive commercial for a supermarket chain.
  • (14) Yet it is monstrously premature to think the threat has passed.
  • (15) As always, the solutions are out there to eliminate this monstrous pile of pointless and avoidable waste.
  • (16) So Standard Chartered is either guilty of monstrous deception or is virtually squeaky clean.
  • (17) With permissions already granted for many more towers, from the Scalpel to the Can of Ham and a monstrous “Gotham City” mega-block by Make, we can say goodbye to a skyline of individual spires, between which you might occasionally glimpse the sky.
  • (18) Concerned citizens must join together with the medical profession and leaders of the legal profession to halt this monstrous injustice.
  • (19) All three of these deaths were monstrous, but two were barely news: business as usual like many thousands of other violent crimes against women.
  • (20) Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.