SINCE 1828
fancied
adjective
fan·cied
| \ ˈfan(t)-sēd
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Definition of fancied
: imagined or believed to be true or real
a fancied resemblance I can't remember any damn memo of mine at all, but I have the distinct impression that almost all of them were written in anger over real or fancied wrongs …— James Thurber … like the split infinitive and other fancied lapses from verbal rectitude …— Kingsley Amis
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