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parenthetic
adjective as in digressive
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Example Sentences
Bounce paused, in the midst of his mental energy, to take a parenthetic whiff.
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Unluckily I am ignorant of the very rudiments of the matter, so his parenthetic enthusiasms were lost upon me.
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But the whole dispute on Poetic Diction is too deep and too broad for an occasional or parenthetic notice.
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The Presidente's shrug was so ruthlessly significant, that Fraisier was compelled to make short work of his parenthetic discourse.
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In parenthetic clauses like this, the introductory ut may convey two very different meanings according to the context.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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