Fad

Examples

• The _fad_ of drawing plans! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is very hard: it is your favorite _fad_ to draw plans. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was there that he perfected the peculiar vertical style of writing which, beginning with him in telegraphy, later became so much of a fad with teachers of penmanship and in the schools. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• People nowadays were too busy--busy with reforms and movements, with fads and fetishes and frivolities--to bother much about their neighbours. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Another of Medora's fads--really this time it was almost prophetic! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which our fads may cause you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It seems at times as if our capacity for appreciating originality were absorbed in the trivial eccentricities of fads and fashions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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