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- adjective Common misspelling of
improvised . - adjective Alternative spelling of
improvised . (The spelling improvized is much rarer than improvised.)
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Examples
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Kirby has this improvized quality, as if being made up on the spot with all the casual brilliance that the courtier was meant to exhibit.
Kirby Grips Peter Ashley 2007
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I've recorded a little improvized jazzy piece to demonstrate it.
M-Audio Session Keystudio James F. McGrath 2008
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Heather and Evan also did a great improvized interprative dance that was a real riot.
super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006
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At any rate, Advanced Lighting and Production Services of Randolph, MA supplied me with a hastily improvized adaptor cable with just the right connectors to allow me to rescue the major lighting effect of the opera.
Archive 2006-02-01 Will 2006
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Objections were timidly put forward as to the hotch-potch that was likely to result from so improvized a method of work; but the hasty playwright overruled them all.
Balzac 2003
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Alphonse Karr subsequently recalled this improvized coronation of the novelist.
Balzac 2003
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A packed drum filter can be improvized if drums and sand are available and this may be a good way of providing limited quantities of safer water quickly, for example for a health centre.
16. Water 1999
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He was engaged, at the time, in planning the destruction by siege of one of the circle of improvized but effective fortresses King Stephen had thrown up to contain and compress the depredations of Geoffrey's host of outlaws, rebels and predators in the Fen country.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
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Not because it's only he and his guitar, but it doesn't sound good, it seems improvized, and have very few interesting performances.
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In his _Guepes_, Alphonse Karr subsequently recalled this improvized coronation of the novelist.
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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