Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • After the manner of Don Quixote; in an absurdly romantic manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a quixotic way.

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  • adverb In a quixotic manner.

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  • adverb in a quixotic manner

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Examples

  • After all, this is the same president that "quixotically" displayed his "shocking ignorance of the strategic rationale driving countries toward creating or expanding their nuclear arsenals by saying that a further U.S.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • I'll make this relatively quick, because to be honest much of what I'm about to say isn't something that hasn't been said before by both myself and a lot of other people pathetic enough to spend most of their time quixotically fixating on the media.

    Chez Pazienza: Crazier Than a Fox Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Alongside a potentially "dangerous," but ultimately tender, prescient alien, Walbrook, and the quintessence of what it meant to be British, Livesey, Kerr's performances complete a masterwork of paradox -- quixotically anti-war, yet wildly patriotic.

    Penelope Andrew: Powell/Pressburger 1943 Classic Conjures Deborah Kerr's Early Artistry and Winston Churchill's Wrath Penelope Andrew 2011

  • Alongside a potentially "dangerous," but ultimately tender, prescient alien, Walbrook, and the quintessence of what it meant to be British, Livesey, Kerr's performances complete a masterwork of paradox -- quixotically anti-war, yet wildly patriotic.

    Penelope Andrew: Powell/Pressburger 1943 Classic Conjures Deborah Kerr's Early Artistry and Winston Churchill's Wrath Penelope Andrew 2011

  • While visiting L'Aquila, Italy after the major earthquake in spring 2009, Pope Benedict quixotically removed the pallium from around his shoulders and laid it on Celestine V's tomb.

    Jon M. Sweeney: Would Pope Benedict XVI Ever Quit? Jon M. Sweeney 2012

  • I'll make this relatively quick, because to be honest much of what I'm about to say isn't something that hasn't been said before by both myself and a lot of other people pathetic enough to spend most of their time quixotically fixating on the media.

    Chez Pazienza: Crazier Than a Fox Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Obama critics from the left are not quixotically tilting at political reality.

    Matthew Yglesias » Different Strokes 2010

  • To ensure this the dinosaurs, those who did not have the basic framework to understand the recent events or have not adapted to the new reality and are still quixotically searching for Israeli sharks and vultures in every Middle Eastern event, must be challenged.

    Danny Ayalon: The Dinosaurs Still Looking for Israeli Sharks and Vultures Danny Ayalon 2011

  • I'll make this relatively quick, because to be honest much of what I'm about to say isn't something that hasn't been said before by both myself and a lot of other people pathetic enough to spend most of their time quixotically fixating on the media.

    Chez Pazienza: Crazier Than a Fox Chez Pazienza 2010

  • To ensure this the dinosaurs, those who did not have the basic framework to understand the recent events or have not adapted to the new reality and are still quixotically searching for Israeli sharks and vultures in every Middle Eastern event, must be challenged.

    Danny Ayalon: The Dinosaurs Still Looking for Israeli Sharks and Vultures Danny Ayalon 2011

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  • "This is the fastest way to get drunk," said Tom quixotically.

    December 10, 2007

  • Hmm, I don't get this one.

    Edit: Wait, quick-sotted-ly? I get it, that's hilarious.

    December 11, 2007

  • HAR!

    February 13, 2010