(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.
Unusual
Definition:
(a.) Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(4) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(5) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(7) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
(8) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
(9) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
(10) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(11) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(12) Caulobacter flagella are unusual in that they contain two different flagellin subunits.
(13) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
(14) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
(15) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(16) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
(17) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
(18) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(19) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
(20) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.