Fads
[fædz]
Examples
- 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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