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Recent Examples of fey
The film casts Courtenay as Norman, the devoted, slightly fey dresser to a declining Shakespearean actor (Finney) touring England during the Blitz.
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Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
And the spacious rooms are fit for a man’s man like Duke Wayne, not a fey faux-cowboy like Kevin Costner – just sayin’!
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David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2026
One of the actors, Mihir Kumar, leads the charge in a monologue that the program notes is drawn from his own life comparing that photo of George to a similarly fey one of himself as a child (both are projected onto a screen at the center of the stage).
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
Sharp cheekbones, Pan-like movements that were more fey than androgynous.
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Elizabeth Winder,
Rolling Stone,
24 July 2023
Not that there was anything fey or fanciful about Austen’s fashion sense: Davidson stresses that Austen’s wardrobe was a hardworking affair.
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Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Mar. 2023
Back at work, she is eyed by her co-workers, the wonderfully fey Shane (Griffin Matthews) and the middle-aged worrier Megan (the terrific Rosie Perez).
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Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
28 Dec. 2020
His business rivals include the louche Chinese gangster Dry Eye (Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding) and a drab little ferret of a man called Matthew (Succession star Jeremy Strong, who delivers every line in a sort of strange, fey deadpan).
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Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
23 Jan. 2020
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
And the spacious rooms are fit for a man’s man like Duke Wayne, not a fey faux-cowboy like Kevin Costner – just sayin’!
—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2026
One of the actors, Mihir Kumar, leads the charge in a monologue that the program notes is drawn from his own life comparing that photo of George to a similarly fey one of himself as a child (both are projected onto a screen at the center of the stage).
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
Sharp cheekbones, Pan-like movements that were more fey than androgynous.
—
Elizabeth Winder,
Rolling Stone,
24 July 2023
Not that there was anything fey or fanciful about Austen’s fashion sense: Davidson stresses that Austen’s wardrobe was a hardworking affair.
—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Mar. 2023
Back at work, she is eyed by her co-workers, the wonderfully fey Shane (Griffin Matthews) and the middle-aged worrier Megan (the terrific Rosie Perez).
—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
28 Dec. 2020
His business rivals include the louche Chinese gangster Dry Eye (Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding) and a drab little ferret of a man called Matthew (Succession star Jeremy Strong, who delivers every line in a sort of strange, fey deadpan).
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Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
23 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fey
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What follows is a deliciously demented cat-and-mouse game between Sky and Dennis.
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The Goalkeeper — nameless, just relentlessly unidentifiable even after at least 30 increasingly demented Google searches and hours on Reddit — wears a yellow Adidas jersey with black detailing.
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Because Spielberg occasionally collaborates with his buddy George Lucas, Indy (Harrison Ford) isn’t encountering any straightforward aliens from another world during the film’s loopy climax.
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On the next-but-one point, Shnaider netted a backhand off a loopy one from Chwalińska to fall to 15-30.
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The drugs brought on psychotic episodes that were destructive, and when his son was about 20, the family made the difficult decision to ask Sean to leave the house.
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In the second episode, Tom spends a night in the local inn, and ends up in a crawl space with the ghost of a psychotic killer clown.
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Digging into the Warren Commission’s evidence, in Meagher’s time, was regarded as something more than eccentric.
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While peers have pushed the genre toward radio-ready house-pop or dubiously eccentric experiments, Pond remain tethered to the sound that produced their last true breakout.
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The president as a maniacal urban planner is a white-knuckle ride, with Washington — and Washingtonians — just holding on for dear life.
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One of Anthropic’s great strengths compared to its archrival OpenAI is its maniacal focus.
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Naturally, googling Messi and Roccuzzo yields some truly deranged headlines, such as one from the Daily Mail that suggests the couple’s 2023 trip to a Publix supermarket was (gasp) staged.
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These new bodies seem to be having more success organizing (usually deranged) events, including a massive military parade in downtown Washington last year, as well as an IndyCar race and a UFC fight scheduled for this summer at the White House.
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But Hall and Faris, now playing the dotty mothers of the next generation of victims, are hilarious, romping about like their Brenda and Cindy have clearly been knocked on the head too often.
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Things got even dottier from there: Another eight names were added to a growing list of scientists who have recently either died or gone missing.
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This isn't just about attempting to change the color of the blooms; unbalanced soil (too acidic or too alkaline) can cause the flowers to turn brown.
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Choosing the wrong rug size or layout can make a room feel awkward and unbalanced.
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“Fey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fey. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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