wishfully
IPA: wˈɪʃfʌɫi
adverb
- In a wishful manner.
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Examples of "wishfully" in Sentences
- The voodoo economics is the effort to combine the social democratic and neoliberal models, or wishfully think that tax cuts pay for themselves.
- (Hat-tip to Tim Roll-Pickering, who unlike most Tories actually understands Europe and thinks, in my opinion a bit wishfully, that this won't last.)
- UCLA's Rick Neuheisel, whose team lost to Oregon last season in a brutal 60-13 rout, predicted perhaps a bit wishfully that Oregon may soon be solved.
- Indeed Alain Minc, an unofficial adviser to Sarkozy, has suggested – perhaps wishfully – that Sarko would look better when a socialist candidate entered the race.
- But "Three Seconds" is the first Roslund and Hellstrom book that has been wishfully packaged to suggest that "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" has a second cousin.
- George Steevens remarks that the 4to. of 1598 reads "wishfully," a variation which should be noted, and perhaps adopted, but, printing from the folio, we retained "wilfully."
- In contrast, they appear to favor the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, wishfully assuming the organization has moderated its Islamist ideology, or could possibly act as a bulwark against Iran.
- Others can coddle the fools who dither and simper wishfully over gods and old myths and apologetics, but some of us have to charge forward and stake out a solid position, one that excludes altogether the ancient fairy tales.
- Favreau was so wishfully thought upon as director of the Avengers, mostly because of his success with Iron Man; not only was it a kick-ass stand-alone film, but we got the sense that he truly understood the characters and could deliver.
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