fancifully

fanciful | American Dictionary

fanciful
adjective
us/ˈfæn·sə·fəl/
not realistic:
fanciful ideas/notions

Examples of fanciful

fanciful
Such fanciful narratives are "mythical" rather than realistic, and the identities they invent defy historical or scientific discursivity.
At a time when fanciful prophecies about changing human nature abounded, those were understood to be obvious matters for analysis.
Along less fanciful lines, detectives can make invisible fingerprints visible by dusting them.
This might sound a little fanciful, a case of the actors improvising and steering the scene towards a politically correct happy end.
A fanciful suggestion perhaps, but it is only a short time since a manned journey to the moon was considered to be mere science fiction.
The example is fanciful, perhaps, but its point is not.
The sources for the early years are weak, often fanciful, and often too late to be trustworthy.
The ironical alternative that hints at political militancy is given up as fanciful, unrealistic.
In others still the metaphors are very fanciful or opaque.
The music is reputed to be very good, the miniatures are fanciful, with monsters and ludicrous bodies in many borders of the book.
They also rated the videos as more interesting, fanciful and dynamic.
At one end of the spectrum lie the 'strongest' works in which complex or fanciful artistic expressions predominate.
What is in evidence, though, are fanciful or invented names.
As one reflects back on about 20 years of continuous change it does not seem over fanciful to talk of reforms for a post-modern age.
The specific claims for zoning often appeared fanciful when subjected to a strict substantial relation test.
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