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fey

adjective as in elflike

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Freya Allan’s Ciri is inscrutable and vulnerable by turns, expertly walking the line of a character who is fey and potentially monstrous in power, but also a young girl facing down a frightening and hostile world with sheer mulish determination.

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When Andy Warhol reportedly observed over a half-century ago that eventually “everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” I doubt that he thought his fey prediction would inspire an unusually useful and durable expression.

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We have Maya Rudolph, rather than, say, Tina Fey, headlining an attempt to revive the television variety show.

So like, Tina Fey or Ricky Gervais or Ty Burell—and Celine Dion!

The legendary puppets have a conversation about Muppets Most Wanted, Oscar bait, and love tapping Tina Fey.

And I end up in a prison guarded by Nadya, played by Tina Fey.

The two secret ingredients: Poehler and Fey, who transform into clubbing Guidettes with unconventional pickup lines.

I had a man go fey on me once, up on the Slave Lake trail, he said slowly.

To see one's own fylgja was unlucky, and often a sign that a man was "fey," or death-doomed.

The next day he seemed just as gay, from dawn till dark, as good-humoured in fact, "as one who feels himself fey."

So tingles the pulsing blood, perhaps, when a man is fey, when the kisses of his mouth are numbered.

I hope I am not fey,' I said to myself, with a little thrill of excitement and expectation as the familiar station came in view.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fey, such as: clairvoyant, dead, elfin, fairylike, otherworldly, and visionary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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