† fictlyadv.
Obsolete.
Feignedly, insincerely.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adverb]
faintlyc1330
feigninglya1387
supposingly?a1450
feignedly1535
counterfeitly1548
dissimulately1556
pretencedly1567
simulately1592
pretensively1607
pretendedly1611
ironically1612
supposedly1618
feigning1620
pretendingly1645
fictitiously1646
fictly1677
simulatively1816
bogusly1862
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adverb]
askancesc1450
hollowlya1547
from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s)1561
teeth outward(s)1561
unsincerelya1575
hollow1607
insincerely1625
fictly1677
with (one's) tongue in (one's) cheek1842
phonily1936
1677 T. Harvey tr. J. Owen Epigrams i. 77 When in the Temple..you pray, You two, not fictly, Abba, Father, say.
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