fictitious
adjective
created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false.
fictitiously
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a word derived from
fictitious.
Example Sentences
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"We fictitiously are living in a world where we're told love and power are total opposites."
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
But instead of helping the fictitiously injured Mr. McMahon, the gathered medical personnel were thrust into genuine action when wrestler Owen Hart accidentally fell from the rafters of Kansas City’s Kemper Arena.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023
Company employees arbitrarily lowered weights for delivered hogs, downgraded their classifications, fictitiously claimed dead hogs to lower prices and created false scale tickets to back up altered weights.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
It’s hard not to be reminded of Cleaver, the calamitously stupid slasher flick fictitiously produced by wannabe Hollywood player Chistopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos’ sixth season.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2019
The township of New England has in itself an indestructible element of independence; and this distinct existence could only be fictitiously introduced into the county, where its utility has not been felt.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Henry Reeves
