fictitious
IPA: fɪktˈɪʃʌs
adjective
- Invented; contrived.
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Examples of "fictitious" in Sentences
- Dealing with injured animals, solving equine problems – sure, I can do that, for real and in fictitious circumstances.
- In satire we are allowed to see ourselves in fictitious or anonymous constructs of real people (Cretinous van Poopypants, anyone?).
- In addition to $300 million in what he called "fictitious profits," the trustee is seeking return of their principal invested with Madoff.
- Mr. Picard seeks to recover nearly $300 million in what he calls "fictitious profits" and about $700 million in principal that he says Messrs.
- Finally, she used her VA credit card to charge the VA for $244,380 in fictitious goods and services, payable to the fictitious business account controlled by defendant.
- He had termed the men "net winners" - Picard charged that over their years of investing they had taken out more money than they had invested with Madoff - and was seeking $300 million in what he called "fictitious profits."
- It's not run by Google, the ads look highly suspicious (mocked up to look like articles in fictitious newspapers) and the whole concept reads like a retread of those "all I did was place a simple ad and I made money!" schemes.
- Such apparent forces were known as fictitious forces because they did not arise from a physical source such as a charge, and could be eliminated if one looked at the situation from a different reference frame, one in uniform motion called an inertial frame.
- But, as we said above, the less men know of nature the more easily can they coin fictitious ideas, such as trees speaking, men instantly changed into stones, or into fountains, ghosts appearing in mirrors, something issuing from nothing, even gods changed into beasts and men and infinite other absurdities of the same kind.
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