fanciful

How to use fanciful in a sentence

• Finally I am facing a young clerk with fancifully decorated false claw-fingernails.

  The Bag Lady Writes a Book | Alexandra Penney | February 19, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Young Eliab either actually was, or fancifully believed himself to be, ill-treated by his step-mother.

  Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 | Lt-Col. Pinkney

• He loved her dearly, though perhaps rather ideally and fancifully than with the impassioned thoroughness of her feeling for him.

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy

• If there was no gain in whirling fancifully with one of the sex, a spin of a minute with her was downright bankruptcy.

  Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith

• Since the child cannot write she turns him into a letter himself by fancifully sticking a stamp on his forehead.

  Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. Lucas