Thesaurus / fancy
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We want to have the fancy, nice things but often discover that having the fancy, nice things usually means someone has to pay.
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To make a deepfake, you don’t need a fancy computer or even a ton of knowledge about software.
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It covers the review of all documents first by the lender, then separately by the borrower’s “settlement agent,” a fancy term for his or her lawyer.
Figuring this all out takes some fancy math, but it’s something an electronic calculator can easily manage.
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Portable bathroom options, which range from simple bag setups for fast and light backpacking to fancy full-flush contraptions for long-term campground stays, can help.
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Leinster does write that some customers may pay almost any price to get fancier and fancier phones.
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“They’re putting some fancy lingo around it or they’re moving it to a different site and calling it an outlet,” she said.
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Over the past couple of decades, American cities replaced their abandoned downtowns with gleaming new residential developments, fancy restaurants, and office buildings with high-paying jobs.
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Using computer-aided design, they designed multiple shapes and fed the data into a digital micromirror device—kind of like a cross between a really fancy camera lens and a tiny house of mirrors.
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A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
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WORDS RELATED TO FANCY
- an arm and a leg
- at a premium
- big-ticket
- costly
- dear
- excessive
- exorbitant
- extravagant
- fancy
- high
- highway robbery
- holdup
- immoderate
- inordinate
- invaluable
- lavish
- out of sight
- overpriced
- plush
- posh
- pretty penny
- pricey
- rich
- ritzy
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- swank
- too high
- uneconomical
- unreasonable
- upscale
- valuable
- absurd
- bizarre
- costly
- crazy
- exaggerated
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expensive
- extortionate
- extreme
- fanciful
- fancy
- fantastic
- flamboyant
- flashy
- foolish
- garish
- gaudy
- grandiose
- immoderate
- implausible
- improvident
- imprudent
- inordinate
- lavish
- ludicrous
- nonsensical
- ornate
- ostentatious
- outrageous
- overpriced
- preposterous
- pretentious
- prodigal
- profligate
- reckless
- ridiculous
- showy
- silly
- spendthrift
- steep
- unbalanced
- unconscionable
- unreasonable
- unrestrained
- affectation
- amusement
- caprice
- chic
- conceit
- cry
- custom
- dernier cri
- eccentricity
- fancy
- fantasy
- fashion
- fool notion
- frivolity
- furor
- hobby
- humor
- in
- in thing
- innovation
- kick
- kink
- latest word
- mania
- mode
- new look
- newest wrinkle
- passing fancy
- passion
- quirk
- rage
- sport
- style
- thing
- trend
- vagary
- vogue
- whim
- whimsy
- wrinkle
- affectation
- amusement
- caprice
- chic
- conceit
- cry
- custom
- dernier cri
- eccentricity
- fancy
- fantasy
- fashion
- fool notion
- frivolity
- furor
- hobby
- humor
- in
- in thing
- innovation
- kick
- kink
- latest word
- mania
- mode
- new look
- newest wrinkle
- passing fancy
- passion
- quirk
- rage
- sport
- style
- thing
- trend
- vagary
- vogue
- whim
- whimsy
- wrinkle
- Atlantis
- air castle
- apparition
- appearance
- bubble
- chimera
- creativity
- daydream
- delusion
- envisioning
- fabrication
- fairyland
- fancy
- fantasia
- figment
- flight
- flight of imagination
- hallucination
- head trip
- illusion
- imaginativeness
- imagining
- invention
- mind trip
- mirage
- nightmare
- originality
- rainbow
- reverie
- trip
- utopia
- vagary
- vision
- Atlantis
- air castle
- apparition
- appearance
- bubble
- chimera
- creativity
- daydream
- delusion
- envisioning
- fabrication
- fairyland
- fancy
- fantasia
- figment
- flight
- flight of imagination
- hallucination
- head trip
- illusion
- imaginativeness
- imagining
- invention
- mind trip
- mirage
- nightmare
- originality
- rainbow
- reverie
- trip
- utopia
- vagary
- vision
- accept
- advocate
- appreciate
- approbate
- approve
- back
- be in favor of
- buck for
- champion
- choose
- commend
- cotton to
- countenance
- encourage
- endorse
- esteem
- eulogize
- fancy
- flash on
- for
- go for
- hold with
- honor
- incline
- lean toward
- look up to
- opt for
- patronize
- pick
- praise
- prize
- regard highly
- root for
- sanction
- single out
- support
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- think well of
- tilt toward
- value
- accept
- advocate
- appreciate
- approbate
- approve
- back
- be in favor of
- buck for
- champion
- choose
- commend
- cotton to
- countenance
- encourage
- endorse
- esteem
- eulogize
- fancy
- flash on
- for
- go for
- hold with
- honor
- incline
- lean toward
- look up to
- opt for
- patronize
- pick
- praise
- prize
- regard highly
- root for
- sanction
- single out
- support
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- think well of
- tilt toward
- value
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