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- adverb In a
faddish way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a faddish manner
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Examples
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Devon Blue and Six Spires, cutely enlivened by a "compression" of pear faddishly done in a sous-vide vacuum cooker and candied walnuts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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So is a menu that mingles the pleasingly traditional with the faddishly modern.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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While it's refreshing to see a diet book geared toward the psychology behind weight gain (instead of one that faddishly recommends a few specific foods to eat and to avoid), McGraw tends to complicate his advice with unnecessary jargon.
Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010
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We should move very carefully and not faddishly rush pell-mell into this sphere.
Latest Articles 2009
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His photos reveal intense blue eyes peering from under faddishly long and tousled tufts of white-blond hair, an athletic build, and face carved with ruggedly handsome features better suited for traversing the ski slopes or riding the ocean surf, than wheeling down a hospital corridor.
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They've engaged occasionally, mostly faddishly, with experiments in new media - they created with much fanfare a new media arts board.
Larvatus Prodeo 2009
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My parents were smokers, so I was never curious, I didn't see anything faddishly rebellious about it, either, and the habit always simply seemed revolting.
Pharyngula 2008
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My parents were smokers, so I was never curious, I didn't see anything faddishly rebellious about it, either, and the habit always simply seemed revolting.
Pharyngula 2008
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My parents were smokers, so I was never curious, I didn't see anything faddishly rebellious about it, either, and the habit always simply seemed revolting.
Planet Atheism 2008
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In the past people have said that the secret of beauty is a sense of inner calm or clear skin or a complex million-to-one genetic fluke that happens to fit society’s faddishly ephemeral ideals at any given time, but all these people are idiots.
Kate Hudson Gets All “Boo Hoo, It’s So Difficult Being Beautiful” 2008
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