fancifully
IPA: fˈænsɪfʌɫi
adverb
- In a fanciful manner.
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Examples of "fancifully" in Sentences
- He describes himself, perhaps fancifully, as a loyal oppositionist.
- The Shulchan Aruch is arranged in four parts, called fancifully, "Path of Life" (_Orach Chayim_), "Teacher of Knowledge" (_Yoreh Deah_),
- There is plenty for tasting, and over 150 different kinds of bread for sale, fancifully displayed in various forms, including those for the upcoming Days of the Dead.
- I was tall and slender with long dark hair and a penchant for Anna Belinda clothes, and fancifully thought our bohemian style set us apart in our particular pocket of south London.
- The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer fancifully suggested that the sexual desire of a man and a woman for each other was actually the desire of their future child to be conceived.
- He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.
- To his credit, the former centre‑back, described somewhat fancifully as a Derby and West Ham "legend" at Derby maybe, but I think you have to play for a team longer than a couple of seasons to have legendary status bestowed upon you, smiled enigmatically, and swatted it away like he used to troublesome attackers.
- Tall, well over six foot, but a bendy, willowy uncertain tall, brown one-year sapling rather than slow growing sturdy branch, the tree metaphor extended by the catkins of his light brown dreadlocks, loose and shot with streaks of blondness denoting, she thought fancifully, the several summers he had lived through since he first grew them.
- Courtesy Tal R and Victoria Miro Gallery, London/ © Tal R 'Science Fiction' 2011 Tal R's art—from his cartoon-like, often sexually explicit drawings that playfully consider the dark and absurd, to the almost child-like collages that mix and match medium and material without convention, to fancifully rendered narrative- and character-rich paintings, full of dramatic color—have made him a buzzed-about talent over the past decade.
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