quixotic
Example Sentences
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Sánchez launched what many viewed as a Quixotic road trip to drum up support across Spain from rank-and-file party members.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023
Broadcaster Stuart Maconie disagreed, writing: "The Bowie Prom was exactly what a Bowie Prom should have been: Quixotic, challenging, playful, maddening and mainly brilliant."
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2016
Quixotic Farming, which sells tilapia and works with Colorado Correctional Industries, said the majority of its tilapia is raised on Missouri farms using civilian workers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2015
In what may ultimately be a Quixotic effort, the U.S.
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2013
Very right and proper of him, of course, to leave the sect if he can't reconcile it with his conscience, but perfectly Quixotic of him to give up the money and beggar himself outright.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
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