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- adjective Not
fanciful
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Examples
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Robert Israel's multistory prison cells and second-act dungeon genuinely look as though they're made of pre-stressed concrete, and Florence von Gerkan's modern costumes Eastern Europe during Communism are accurate and unfanciful.
Mirror-Image Operas Enjoy Identical Good Results Paul Levy 2011
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This has meant something in the psychology of so unfanciful a race.
The California Birthday Book Various
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No man but idealised her, unfanciful as he might be, not so much for her beauty or gifts, or for all combined, as because when she gave herself it would be for the last as it was for the first time.
The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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I cannot help being angry and somewhat fretful at this; he has, to be sure, strong parts, but he is a coarse, unlettered, unfanciful dog. '
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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I cannot help being angry and somewhat fretful at this; he has, to be sure, strong parts, but he is a coarse, unlettered, unfanciful dog. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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