fanciful
adjective
characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance.
unfanciful
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a word derived from
fanciful.
Example Sentences
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But so natural and unfanciful a thing as a full stop to the tension left us stupefied.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
I was also conscious of an unfanciful and very prosaic emptiness.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss
This has meant something in the psychology of so unfanciful a race.
From The California Birthday Book by Various
I cannot help being angry and somewhat fretful at this; he has, to be sure, strong parts, but he is a coarse, unlettered, unfanciful dog.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
He had a first-rate plan, but with what unfanciful and rigidly precise lines he filled it in!
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
