fanciful

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"[14] That Walpole regarded his story merely as a fanciful, amusing trifle is clear from the letter he wrote to Miss Hannah More reproving her for putting so frantic a thing into the hands of a Bristol milkwoman who wrote poetry in her leisure hours.

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  1. adjective Created in the fancy; unreal: a fanciful story.
  2. adjective Tending to indulge in fancy: a fanciful mind.
  3. adjective Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative. See Synonyms at fantastic.

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  • Their flickering kind of faith needs a regular dose of the supernatural or the fanciful (like the "dancing sun" or shower of rose petals from nowhere) to keep it burning. —  Bisaya Bloggers
  • The London tube system is packed with odd, fanciful, and unusual station names. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • The captions are fanciful, the order is significant, the material is diverse. —  Top Tech News
  • While these may sound fanciful, the ice appears to slow the replication of the virus, while the tannin in tea possesses anti-viral and anti-bacterial properties which help fight the virus and protect against secondary infections too. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • If the latter sounds fanciful, there are countries like Argentina and Russia who can tell you from bitter recent experience what happens when economies collapse. —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
 

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