Sentence example with the word 'vicarious'

vicarious

alternate, backup, delegated, ersatz, indirect, phony, proxy, spare, substituted, tentative

Definition adj. experienced at secondhand

Last update: May 1, 2017


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He got a vicarious pleasure.   [adjective]

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A lot of people have said there 's a kind of vicarious pleasure in reading our book or whatever.   [adjective]

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No doors kicked in by dawn 's early light, no vicarious thrill of the punishment beating asserting the beef of Old England.   [adjective]

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For the host: rejuvenation of intelligence, vicarious satisfaction.   [adjective]

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True, it is still steeped in the theologic muddle, which proclaims punishment as a means of purification, or the vicarious atonement of sin.   [adjective]

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I thought we'd finished with the vicarious act of contrition but no such luck.   [Please select]

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Farnsworth felt the sly irony of this absurdly vicarious proposition.   [Please select]

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"But you realize, of course," said Linda, "that it is vicarious."   [Please select]

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II She had vicarious happiness in the return of Major Raymond Wutherspoon.   [Please select]

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And this is only possible for the man or woman possessed of a vicarious imagination.   [Please select]

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