fancifully
- a word derived from fanciful.
Example Sentences
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A month later, the Resolution and another ship, the Adventure, set sail under Cook’s command to the southern oceans in search of a hitherto unknown continent, fancifully known as Terra Australis Incognita.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
"The stone was looking at me and I was looking at it. It wanted me to set it free from the wall!" says Dr Sadek fancifully.
From BBC • May 26, 2023
Taffeta is fancifully engaged in historical revisionism, but it’s her own history that is as much at stake as Lincoln’s.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022
It was sunlight reflected at a particular angle off the sides of a cave, but the discovery soon made its way to Israeli television and was fancifully named “the burning bush.”
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021
I suppose the things that transform your life don’t appear as you fancifully imagine they will.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
