(a.) Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
(a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
(a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.
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?"
Razzmatazz
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For all the media razzmatazz, the big economic decisions and announcements are almost always made elsewhere.
(2) Today saw the largest military parade that North Korea has ever witnessed: a blend of sheer force and razzmatazz.
(3) Reputations riding on the iPhone 6 Amid all the razzmatazz of Apple's latest launch – including a live performance from U2, and iTunes account holders receiving the band's new album whether they wanted it or not – it is easy to forget that the success of the iPhone 6 and Watch is crucial for its chief executive, Tim Cook, and highly paid retail guru, Angela Ahrendts.
(4) Dein was fascinated by the high-rolling razzmatazz of American sport and frustrated by the endless sub-committees of the Football League, the competition to which his club then belonged.
(5) It was difficult to think of another FA Cup final when the winning manager has been condemned so quickly and, if that will be remembered as an embarrassment for United, there was an awkward sub-plot for the Football Association as well, bearing in mind the ridiculous razzmatazz that preceded the game.
(6) "We didn't go pink and we didn't want razzmatazz," said Annette Phillips, superintendent registrar.
(7) Razzmatazz and balloons is not going to be the mood at the next election.
(8) It seems in keeping with his film-making style that there is no razzmatazz about Thin Man Films’s headquarters.
(9) The conference slogan will be “Straight talking, honest politics” – an echo of the Corbyn leadership campaign in which he shunned razzmatazz in favour of hundreds of unrehearsed and often unscripted speeches.
(10) Barron Trump, 10, joined his father, Donald, and mother Melania, at the noisy, razzmatazz climax of the Republican national convention in Cleveland, his parents keeping a protective hand on him as rock music blared and the arena erupted.
(11) Their continuation suggests next year's Oscars will maintain the air of showbiz razzmatazz that saw a number of old-school song and dance numbers, as well as Theron and Channing Tatum's elegant waltz.
(12) Bolland suggests that M&S has avoided these disasters because of the strong sourcing policies of Plan A, which was billed as costing £200m over five years when it launched in January 2007 with typical Rose razzmatazz , but has since saved the company £320m.
(13) Amid the razzmatazz of Geneva, much of the talk on the sidelines among European manufacturers will be how to take capacity out of an industry that is suffering from a severe production glut.
(14) Tony Smythe has no doubt what his father would think of the modern Everest scene, and the fight that took place on the mountain this spring : "He would have been horrified by the whole thing – the razzmatazz and the vast numbers going up there.
(15) What’s the point hanging around for the fight when he can fight [Juan Manuel] Márquez, [Brandon] Rios or [Keith] Thurman.” The rumbling, velvet tones of the MC, Michael Buffer, welcomed the home favourite to the ring with unmistakable razzmatazz and, having taken the measure of his man with the jab in round one, Brook set about unravelling Dan’s evening in the next round.
(16) In contrast to Yes Scotland’s razzmatazz, the Better Together launch at Napier University’s futuristic silver auditorium at Craiglockhart in Edinburgh a month later was a far more sober affair.