fancy
/ˈfæn.si/ adjective A2- Decorative, or featuring decorations, especially intricate or diverse ones. · This is a fancy shawl.
- Of a superior grade. · This box contains bottles of the fancy grade of jelly.
- Executed with skill. · He initiated the game-winning play with a fancy deked saucer pass to the winger.· It took some fancy footwork to make it happen.
- Unnecessarily complicated. · I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas.
Comparative fancier · Superlative fanciest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a man like ourselves, and I fancy not a bad sort of one.”
To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
“She will soon get over these things.” So saying, Madame de Saint-Méran extended her dry bony hand to Villefort, who, while imprinting a son-in-law’s respectful salute on it, looked at Renée, as much as to say, “I must try and fancy ’tis your dear hand I kiss, as it should have been.”
A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there.
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