fey
Example Sentences
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But she complemented the Welsh actor who "brings a furious fey playfulness and vulnerability" to his character.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024
Hilda is watchful, girlish and a bit fey.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2023
All three victims are Lymp’s affluent half-siblings, from whom he is estranged: Dr. Marian Harmon, West Mills’ officious Black pediatrician; her sporty younger sister Marva; and Lazarus, their fey brother.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2023
While Maren and Lee share the same fey temperament and just-agonized-enough ethics, another secret sharer she meets along the way — a menacing vagabond named Sully, overplayed by Mark Rylance — has no such compunctions.
From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022
He was normal again, stolid, dull, not the fey excited creature of the past few weeks.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing fey
Essential Three-Letter Words, Part 4
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