The Christmas tree was fancifully decorated. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers. ,fanciful lands of romance. ,a fanciful mind. From Dictionary.com.
I have heard it fancifully traced to the Latin "cauda.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851] Reference
These have been supplied, somewhat fancifully, as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
He was dressed fancifully and with taste; he played with feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
Peace-pool is as fancifully portrayed as is the creation of world-pap. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
How fancifully the poet tells of the origin of the flag in the first stanza!. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
The ride of my Lady of Godiva is fancifully suggested by the Coventry version. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and fancifully embroidered by Pocahontas and her maidens. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Dr. Dudley's boys marched over at eight o'clock, every one of them fancifully attired. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
The Tieshanese guard I saw earlier, the one I fancifully called my first Amazon, is gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
"Ah!" he exclaims, drawing out the fancifully carved stopper, "this phial is one of a set.". From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
There are birds hanging from wires above the stairs, made of bright nylon and fancifully painted. From Wordnik.com. [The Saurians' Revenge] Reference
The first of these was a sheltered bay with twin villages at its head, which I fancifully designated. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Young Eliab either actually was, or fancifully believed himself to be, ill-treated by his step-mother. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
The beauty of Selworthy is not, indeed, except fancifully, affected by its being a landowner's village. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
These having performed their part, two ladies, pretty fancifully dressed, as described in Captain Cook's. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
The (reported) history of the democracy movement has thus changed, and yet not fancifully nor radically. From Wordnik.com. [News Media Protects Bad Guys] Reference
It was in a heavy magnificent old style, of iron bars, fancifully wrought at top into flourishes and flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
Sigh, I fancifully await the weekend that keeps me at home for a few days, reading, relaxing, being lazy and antisocial. From Wordnik.com. [Concerts, Galleries, and Private Shows] Reference
The simple, powerful characterisations and the fancifully escapist storyline worked their special magic but to no avail. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
In front of the duke's pavilion was hung his shield, and by its side stood his squire, fancifully dressed in rich colors. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The fabric of Catharine's dress was fine, thick linen, covered with pictures, like a fancifully illustrated volume of Natural History. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
About the same time various amateurs, well mounted on steeds gaily caparisoned, fancifully and tastefully attired, present themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829] Reference
I would ask, how could that arrangement of the fabric, so fancifully and ingeniously described by Stukely, be intended to represent the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828] Reference
"Liar's Poker" author Michael Lewis fancifully claimed in his Bloomberg column to have discovered Mr. O'Neal's scorecards and golf diary. From Wordnik.com. [Nowhere to Hide -- for Now] Reference
But the trilithon stood up white as ever; and, crossing the intervening sward, the steward fancifully placed his mouth against the stone. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Under it and in the centre is a square stone, planted upright and fancifully carved, to represent the omphalic region of the human frame. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
By 1911, the speech resurfaced in a collection of American political oratory, with the robed speaker fancifully identified as Patrick Henry. From Wordnik.com. [Reagan and the occult] Reference
Island are of a more patrician character, and are occasionally surrounded by spacious flower-gardens and ornamental trees fancifully trimmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
He slipped her shirt over her head, but stayed where he was, so close she thought fancifully that she could hear the lazy throb of his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]
The former are much more numerous, and have been compared somewhat fancifully to countless myriads of tiny fishes in a swiftly flowing stream. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Conrig crouched behind a balustrade with upright members carved fancifully into Green Men and other rustic demons and studied the scene below. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
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