Words similar to fictitious
Example sentences for: fictitious
How can you use “fictitious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Both names (along with the no-longer-common "John-a-'nokes" and "John-a-'stiles") derive from legal custom dating back almost to medieval times, in cases where suit needed, for arcane reasons, to be filed against a legally fictitious person.
Like Macdonald's fictitious scientist, it is uncomfortable with abstractions.
(Most problematic: A fictitious manservant, supposed to be a sort of African-American Everyman, contemplates assassinating Wallace.)
The law recognizes two basic kinds of trademark, though it allows for a measure of degree in their definition: a “strong trademark” is one used only in a fictitious or fanciful manner, while a “weak trademark” is a meaningful word in common usage that doubles as a suggestive or descriptive trademark.
Contrary to Seth Stevenson's "Signs and Wonders," credit for the first High-Five should go to Mel Brooks, director of the 1968 classic The Producers . Actually, Brooks did not execute the maneuver, but directed Dick Shawn, as a flowery actor in the title role of the fictitious Broadway play Springtime for Hitler , to complete the first High-Five with another actor who was giving a Nazi salute, to which Shawn responded, "Heil, Baby!"
Loading...