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vicariously

/vahy-kair-ee-uhs-lee, vi-/US // vaɪˈkɛər i əs li, vɪ- //

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : through the experience of another person: Adventure novels transport us to strange lands, fraught with perilous situations and terrifying monsters we can vicariously vanquish.

Examples

  • I want to do this really badly and I probably should be doing this, and taking this knowledge and experience and this passion and doing it vicariously through other people, through artists.

  • Watching Blomdahl’s videos allowed me to live vicariously through someone who had successfully found the joyful moments that I hoped to emulate in my own space.

  • Twitch may have started off as a platform for vicariously consumed spectacle—for watching other people shoot zombies or race cars as they played video games.

  • I experienced this vicariously in researching my own Sicilian American family, through interviews with elderly relatives.

  • Last October, when a friend was in Belize, I lived vicariously through his trip by peeking at his eBird checklists each day, and they brightened my mood amid dropping fall temperatures in New Mexico.

  • But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.

  • As far as Wurtzel is concerned, most millennials seem too removed from the day to day, too willing to live vicariously.

  • Living vicariously through his teammates was better than being home, preoccupied each day with his eroding strength.

  • Charles Swan is all about a man living vicariously through his daydreams.

  • Watching her on TV, people will have lived through her vicariously.

  • That kind of tripe was for the little Joe Dopes who got their thrills vicariously.

  • I think that at that moment I suffered vicariously in his scornful regard for all my countrymen.

  • And it is certainly patent to the most out-and-out sceptic that I shall have to get all my Romance vicariously.

  • If it be consistent with his nature to punish by substitution, what security is there that he will not reward vicariously?

  • There could be no surprises, no enigmatic delights, but vicariously he could be young again.