One word

Vicarious

Word of the day on 03 October 2009.

Winning tweet

60
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DaveCurry
She could feel the tension of the strings, the warmth of the wood against her cheek, alone in row 8, lost in a vicarious stradivarius bliss.

Good uses

  • syjabudu
    55
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    Until now my experience with Artwiculate was only vicarious.
  • ZimmerJohn
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    I'm not competing in today's contest; instead I'll sit back and get a vicarious thrill watching the pugilistic linguistics of others.
  • readsmallprint
    44
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    Would it be cynical to conclude that Hillary has already served two vicarious terms through Bill? @Theonlygolux
  • AtlasSneezed
    44
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    I live a vicarious life through my guinea pigs. Life is simple for them.
  • SJHatzi
    40
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    A vicarious victory would render this vixen vexed: I'd rather be victorious in ernest, nothing less.
  • DrMobs
    40
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    Parents who attempt to live vicariously through their children's sporting careers should to be muzzled on the sidelines. #vicarious
  • routermonkey
    40
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    Hrm... something clever for vicarious... I'll just enjoy someone else's success at @artwiculate this time.
  • airynothing
    39
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    Is it wrong to get a vicarious thrill playing Mario Kart? I express my road rage after a taxing commute and no one gets hurt! #artwiculate
  • yardism
    39
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    The irony of working in a restaurant and not being able to eat for two days... The vicarious enjoyment of other people's meals...
  • _Viv
    39
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    @Artwiculate Starry Night's churning sky and flaming cypress gives you a vicarious feel of Vincent van Gogh's emotional state of mind.
  • Theonlygolux
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    Naked he hurdled the fence, grabbing clothes from the line. Later he found that the black shirt and dog collar made him look most vicarious.
  • Ysabeluna
    35
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    At least Chicago can be VICARIOUS / in RIO's jubilation Delirious
  • SJHatzi
    35
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    A thousand times I wish a life that is precarious than one that's vicarious.
  • dmriver
    35
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    It would have been much better if I hadn't checked out the other 127 instances of vicarious first. I do like to watch.
  • lagadu123
    35
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    Although the etymological root is apparently the same, vicarious now has no more to do with vicars than pious does with pies.
  • _Viv
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    @artwiculate Parents relive their childhood through vicarious means.
  • drnikki
    34
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    is working on the first issue of her new magazine "Vicarious Living". Cover story: "Young, Rich, Attractive and Popular - Things You're Not"
  • Athrin
    33
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    I live a vicarious life through reading. I can be a wand wielding wizard today, and a famous courtesan the next. #Artwiculate
  • DoogieHowser_MD
    33
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    @artwiculate If I have a man crush on Lorenzo Lamas/Michael Landon/Lou Diamond Philips, does that make me vicarious? Or just creepy?
  • lk201317
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    This is the dawning of the age of vicarious...
  • ryanbeed
    30
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    It's best to remember that iron has less to do with irony then vicars have to do with vicarious. But men of the cloth can like to watch.
  • CindieLou
    30
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    Vicars vex Vixens with Virtuous Visions. Verily, these Vicars venerate the Vixens' Vivaciousness via vicarious vessels #artwiculate
  • TurkOfAges
    30
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    One must exercise caution not to interchange the word promiscuous with vicarious, as in "They lived promiscuously through their children"
  • tWordBird
    30
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    He lived life vicarious-ly | Through characters seen on t.v. | A doctor, a lawyer, a cop… | But, meanwhile, his life was a flop. @tWordBird
  • lithiumzombie
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    "NO! YOU Jane, ME Tarzan!", Jane cried out, in a final attempt to explain the concept of vicarious experience to the puzzled Ape Man.
  • McAnza
    30
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    If everyone's living vicariously by reading yesterdays blogs, who's living for today? #artwiculate
  • SJHatzi
    30
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    Karioke: The vicarious thrill of living the rock star fantacy.
  • soarski
    30
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    @artwiculate The poor country vicar took vicarious worldly pleasure in hearing of the sybaritic exploits of his well-healed parishoners.
  • falseazure
    30
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    Forbidden from sinning personally, Father Joseph took a vicarious pleasure in hearing about the sins of other people. #artwiculate
  • Theonlygolux
    29
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    Hilarious - Vicarious... Hilarity - Vicarity... Hilary Clinton - Vicary Clinton?
  • Theonlygolux
    29
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    It is a strangeness about vicars that for a large part, especially in the less urban regions their experiences of life are largely vicarious
  • Anamuk
    29
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    Early morning Twitter allows me to live several vicarious lives, some of them a heady mix of lifestyles
  • Smoodle
    29
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    Alas. Why must the pleasure of killing zombies be forever vicarious?
  • silversteelwolf
    29
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    Thanks to the internet, anybody with a computer can enrich their life with vicarious experiences.
  • curlingtom
    29
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    “Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality” George Santayana
  • azngoHAPPY
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    To be vicarious illustrates an intelligent person always seeking knowledge, however, sometimes we have to experience things ourselves.
  • browningshane
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    Soon the tiny beggars will wander the streets, wearing vicarious visages, and begging, "Trick or treat!"
  • neecha2k9
    29
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    The vicar's vote for a ban on voyeurism violated his vicarious sensibilities.
  • _Viv
    29
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    @Artwiculate Starry Night's churning sky and flaming cypress gives you a vicarious feel for Vincent van Gogh's emotional state of mind.
  • kriskerzman
    29
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    @artwiculate It would be a shame if learning about sex were a purely vicarious process.
  • rjshrikant
    28
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    @artwiculate Using #artwiculate words in your tweets is truly a vicarious pleasure!! :D
  • iMike
    28
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    Vicarious prevarication is no way to run the Holy See.
  • tweetiepie98
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    @artwiculate Mary, a former stripper turned Catholic nun, buys all of her undergarments at Vicarious Secret.
  • Eekaboo
    28
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    The youngest child of every family should live a vicarious life by learning from their older sibling's mistakes.
  • _ado
    25
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    "Forgive me, Father," prayed the vicar, "for I have enjoyed the sinful vicarious pleasures of watching the stable boy do the milkmaid."
  • ecin
    25
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    My friends aren't imaginary, they just live with vicarious secrecy through me.
  • rdanhof
    25
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    @artwiculate Arguments by analogy often suffer from merely vicarious legitimacy.
  • caslexplorers
    25
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    I enjoyed a vicarious victory as I watched my protege coach his soccer team to an 8-0 win.
  • barnerd
    25
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    I would rather prefer to keep a vicarious understanding of being a zombie. #artwiculate #zombieland

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