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  • noun That which is freakish or grotesque.

Etymologies

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freak +‎ -ery

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Examples

  • This arrogant control-freakery is what I feared when Google announced Android in 2007: Carriers have exploited Android's openness to treat their customers like their servants.

    Verizon's Fascinate reaches new lows among smartphones run amok Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • This arrogant control-freakery is what I feared when Google announced Android in 2007: Carriers have exploited Android's openness to treat their customers like their servants.

    Verizon's Fascinate reaches new lows among smartphones run amok Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • I see some signs that this latest outburst of freakery may be starting to backfire on the GOP.

    Oh, the Insanity 2009

  • Instead Labour conferences are just incredibly bring. party of this is in part because ruling parties do not have the freedom to allow party conferences to dictate policy willy nilly, but in great part it is more to do with Labour's control freakery. the clearest example of this was the throwing out of a delegate a few years ago by a bunch of heavies.

    What do party conferences achieve outside of political circles ? Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • But I have always known that there was a darker side to himhis obsessiveness, his self-centerdness, his control-freakery, his capacity for self-deception, his conviction that he was always right, his almost casual cruelty when his own interests were at stake.

    A Conversation with Gaynor Arnold, author of Girl in a Blue Dress 2010

  • Isn't that just typical of the control freakery of the Greens that "They know best"?

    Archive 2009-06-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • That's why the Apple iPhone sells like hot cakes, even to geeks who despise the company's control freakery.

    Why e-books are a weight off my mind John Naughton 2010

  • Isn't that just typical of the control freakery of the Greens that "They know best"?

    First poll in Norwich North Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • But if you tackle those subjects you're more likely to be lauded for it than reviled for breaching the taboo -- assuming you're approaching them/as topics/rather than just expressing some fucked-up personal freakery.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • Instead Labour conferences are just incredibly bring. party of this is in part because ruling parties do not have the freedom to allow party conferences to dictate policy willy nilly, but in great part it is more to do with Labour's control freakery. the clearest example of this was the throwing out of a delegate a few years ago by a bunch of heavies.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

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