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How to use fictitious in a sentence

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Deceipt is certainly not less deceipt, whether the falsehood be formed into words, or be conveyed through the medium of fictitious appearances.
He's a total space cadet if he thinks we can track down a fictitious character.
The fictitious hedgie broke no laws, although he might suffer pangs of conscience for profiting while his clients suffered.
Everywhere the fictitious, the unauthentic and the dramatic are outdistancing and outshining the ordinary, the authentic and the real.
Crucial facts are elided and fictitious positions are imputed to his opponents.
Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users.
A new series of posters is making its appearance on the university campus, featuring fictitious sufferers of psychoses.
Grossly overvalued shares in these companies provided a fictitious tax base from employee stock options and capital gains.
In the last year, management tried to conceal the looming bankruptcy by the fictitious sale of the bank's real estate subsidiary.
Murphy was a fictitious freelancer Reynolds invented to extract some extra cash from the Irish Press.
After all, by inventing a fictitious past, success in overcoming it would seem to be guaranteed.
The company had sold funds for largely fictitious assets and had hired an actress to deliver a false audit report for investors.
Better to discover how science is in fact developed and learned than to fabricate a fictitious structure to a similar effect.
Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a fictitious and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage.
Respondents were asked to indicate which items were indeed the titles of real children's books as opposed to fictitious titles.
We do not use pretentious, fictitious terms for my establishment's beverages.
Each group not only had to design the game, but invent a fictitious company, and determine their roles within it.
However, when used for purposes of assessing taxes, fictitious values do indeed become real ones.
We made some phone calls to our people in the north, and they all confirmed that this is a true story and it's not a fictitious story.
This must be a real, not a fictitious, intention, so it hardly arises in the case of a fraudster.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This fictitious correspondence of mine is to blame for the foregoing digression.
So popular was the last-named corps that many fictitious members were soon arrested for bearing its brassard.
Doe and Richard Roe, the fictitious plaintiff and defendant in an action of ejectment.
And the conclusions drawn from them are sound, although the premises are fictitious.
Their manner of life, the food they eat, creates a fictitious force which must expend itself.
This fictitious character is represented in priapic attitudes in a number of illustrations of old English ballads.
Cadmus is said to have married Harmonia, daughter of Ares, again a fictitious name for a Thracian maiden.
But Quintilian has less faith in the probative value of fictitious examples than he has in those drawn from authentic history.
He called on Lowther to get down, and together the two men began to examine a sparking plug with wholly fictitious energy.
He spoke of the fictitious quarries, of the railways on paper, of the chimeric liners disappearing in their own steam.
When I had recovered sufficiently, I gave my fictitious name and introduced the Colonel, as a sort of endorser for my statement.
It is thought to enervate and corrupt by means of a luxurious excitement, purely fictitious and temporary.
The fictitious nephew Fitzvictor was apparently a son of the Victor who had but recently collaborated with the peccant Cazire.
Actions described in novels are judged by a romantic system of morals as fictitious as the actions themselves.
The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and alacrity for the occasion.
In his visitations he was very severe in defacing fictitious arms.
They may be delusive, but they cannot possibly be fictitious.
In this, I respectfully contend, I have in no respect exceeded the fair license due to the author of a fictitious composition.
The mode of locomotion is, of course, purely imaginary, and the incidents and adventures fictitious.
On the fourth day the fictitious husband is required to divorce the girl.
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