What's the difference between amorous and fancy?

Amorous


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.
  • (a.) Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on.
  • (a.) Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
  • (2) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
  • (3) Nothing substantial altered in the world, and the wild, amoral capitalism that developed from his Hayek-inspired economic vision created wealth for some, but otherwise had no respect for the homes or jobs of Powell’s followers, nor for the other things he cared about – tradition, national borders, patriotism or religion.
  • (4) This is a party on its way to becoming a multinational libertarian sect, whose preoccupations are no longer those either of much of its electorate or of the business community – wrestling with how genuinely to innovate, invest and motivate workforces in a world of increasingly amoral, ownerless companies so beloved and promoted by the sect.
  • (5) Tommy from Vice City is a cackling psychopath, and CJ from San Andreas merely rides the acquisitionist philosophy of hip-hop culture to terminal amorality.
  • (6) When Hall became amorous for a second time, she made it clear she wanted nothing to do with him, gathered her things and headed towards her room.
  • (7) Among them was Amor Masovic, the chairman of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, the man entrusted by the state with the endless task of accounting for the dead.
  • (8) Based on a script by Oscar-nominated writer Beau Willimon, it was to be a remake the 1990 BBC series House of Cards, and would star Kevin Spacey as an amoral US senator.
  • (9) Amphotericin B (Amph B), 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), ketoconazole (KTZ), fluconazole (FLZ), amorolfine (AMOR) and terbinafine (TER) were tested against 3 agents of central nervous system phaeohyphomycosis in vitro and in life-threatening infections in mice.
  • (10) Villains who are also heroes, amoral manipulators whose goals may ultimately be honourable: it's hard to talk of such things with Cranston for long without circling back to Walter White, possibly the darkest and most morally ambiguous protagonist in television history.
  • (11) But now that the Thatcherite alternative has failed just as completely with a broken, amoral banking system, those 1960s and 70s struggles seem less futile.
  • (12) The film itself has a similar feel: relentlessly entertaining but brazenly, outrageously amoral.
  • (13) Church of England calls for 'fresh moral vision' in British politics Read more The prime minister, whose government has clashed with the Church of England over the direction and severity of policy, said the changes it had made since the last election should likewise not be seen as “amoral”.
  • (14) Released in 1935, it chronicles the musical and amorous adventures of two young men who put on a cabaret for tourists in the Morro da Providência , the hill near the port area of Rio de Janeiro, which, 40 years earlier, had become Brazil’s first favela.
  • (15) The Telegraph's religion editor and Church of England priest George Pitcher has described him as personifying "the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar New Britain".
  • (16) It will be the latest improbable chapter in the life story of a man raised as an Eisenhower Republican, who fought as a patriot in Vietnam and made his name in Hollywood writing such splashy, amoral screenplays as Scarface for Al Pacino, before becoming an Oscar-winning, Chávez-admiring Buddhist whom the Observer described as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema" .
  • (17) Samir Ben Amor is also concerned that, despite promises from the government, the exact wording of the amnesty law has yet to be released.
  • (18) The revitalisation of Guillermo Amor’s side as genuine premiership contenders gathered further momentum at AAMI Park.
  • (19) Among Brazilian film buffs and cultural historians, the film Favela dos Meus Amores has gained cult-like status.
  • (20) Human- and snail-related aspects of the transmission of schistosomiasis mansoni was studied in the Amor Parish community located at the western bank of the River Nile in the Nebbi District, north-western Uganda.

Fancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
  • (n.) An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
  • (n.) An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
  • (n.) Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
  • (n.) That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
  • (n.) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
  • (v. i.) To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
  • (v. i.) To love.
  • (v. t.) To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
  • (v. t.) To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
  • (v. t.) To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
  • (a.) Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
  • (a.) Extravagant; above real value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
  • (2) The plot departs from the good book in big ways, small ways, in fact any way the makers (evangelical husband and wife Mark Burnett and Roma Downey) fancy.
  • (3) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
  • (4) Small business gets clobbered by taxes and business rates, while big business turns around and says to the state: "This is how much tax I fancy paying this year, take it or leave it".
  • (5) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
  • (6) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.
  • (7) BSkyB believes the modelling is flawed and that conclusions such as that it could benefit by up to £600m over five years is "fanciful".
  • (8) The first fanciful bit of the Biden 4 Prez story came out this past weekend, when the veep sat down with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for a two-hour meeting .
  • (9) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
  • (10) The court heard how all of these areas and more are gambled on in the unregulated Asian markets, in so-called "fancy bets".
  • (11) I require my coffee to taste like coffee, not like fancy warm milk.
  • (12) "They sit in their fancy hotels, in safety, talking and talking.
  • (13) Protest is what you do when those you elect are not listening, and it can, on occasion, be powerful to dress up in fancy dress and sing.
  • (14) It's actually very taboo to stop and say, "OK, I'm in a band and I'm really successful and my boyfriend's a pop star and he's really handsome and lots of girls fancy him, but I don't want to be with him."
  • (15) Founder and executive deputy chairman Mike Ashley didn't need a salary or a fancy bonus plan because he would gain from the improvement in the company's value.
  • (16) Good luck telling your manager you fancy a day off.
  • (17) I'm not even asking for a handout or asking to be able to keep up a fancy lifestyle and have someone else pay for the boring stuff, I work hard, I save and I pay my taxes and my standard of living gets worse and worse every year.
  • (18) "My use of the word 'fancy' was not meant as a proper insult.
  • (19) The Mr Benn approach also opens up lots of fancy dress options for TV sponsorship bumpers and blipverts.
  • (20) Does he fancy winning the league again & knock Liverpool right off their perch?"