unfreakishly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ freakishly.

Adverb[edit]

unfreakishly (comparative more unfreakishly, superlative most unfreakishly)

  1. Not freakishly.
    • 1957 May, Antony Flew, “The Structure of Malthus’ Population Theory”, in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, volume 35, number 1, page 12:
      So it would probably be wise to be content with trying to establish some such more modest conclusion as that the power of multiplication possessed by any unfreakishly composed human population is so great that it could not be exercised unchecked for very long.
    • 1967 November 4, Marianne C[raig] Moore, “In Fashion Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, in Herbert Mitgang, editor, America at Random: from The New York Times’ Oldest Editorial Feature, “Topics of the Times,” a Century of Comment on America and Americans, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., published 1969, →LCCN, section I (America and the Americans), page 68:
      The sound hole in a cello, an upper-case Caslon Old Style S, an approaching swan, a swiftly twirling sea lion reversing direction, fifty elephants with heads touching the ground as honoring majesty in Thailand—these symbolize fashion rightness as unfreakishly right as Siam is distant from Manhattan.
    • 1968, Opera, volume 19, page 831:
      Baba (who hardly has her fair share of the best music) was attractively, and unfreakishly, presented by Eva Gilhofer.
    • 2008, Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 33:
      When he thought about those kids being freaks, though, he immediately also thought, No offense, because those kids couldn’t help being so freakishly smart or gifted or whatever, the same way Dev couldn’t help being highly, but unfreakishly, smart.