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
Which makes you wonder: Is it a restaurant created — even if fictitiously — by a person named Bojangle or a person named Bojangles?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
Other public mishaps have happened fictitiously: Two television characters had heart attacks on its treadmills this year.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
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
"Are they, indeed, now?" said the nurse, used to being interested, fictitiously, but at the shortest notice, in anything childish.
From Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain
