quixotically

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He had fooled her--quixotically fooled her, it is true--but fooled her as never woman had been fooled in the world before.

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  • To be recklessly and quixotically heroic is not within the function of Popes; moreover, —  The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • "And if the mystery is why Sophie acted quixotically, well, I've already given you my guess, which you rejected, and I can't think of another." —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • She was the ice-queen of some polar region lit by a blue-green aurora, Grant thought quixotically, and suddenly found himself empty and yearning. —  Fantastic Voyage
  • He had fooled her--quixotically fooled her, it is true--but fooled her as never woman had been fooled in the world before. —  Jaffery
  • "Just the same, " he said. —  The Rat-A-Tat Mystery
 

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