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Significados de quixotic en inglés

Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic.

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Uso de quixotic en inglés
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It began as a quixotic project three years ago in local theatre.
The Guardian
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The government needed competent officials, not revolutionaries engaged in quixotic ideological crusades.
The Guardian
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Doug Lenat's quixotic quest to create an artificial intelligence with common sense.
Wired
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We did not count on Tritt's quixotic action at just that moment.
The Gods Themselves
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But in planning terms alone there is something quixotic about yesterday's decision.
The Irish Times
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She did not try to analyze that quixotic impulse; she merely obeyed.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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One who has plotted an idiosyncratic path was quixotic in his choices.
The Guardian
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The quest for objectivity seemed ultimately to have been a quixotic one.
The Guardian
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It had been a senseless and quixotic idea on Maurice's part altogether.
Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
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But it was not likely that Uncle Brian would be so quixotic.
Uncle Max
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Your father seems to have been quixotic after his own fashion, Thornton.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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A quixotic tale of horn-swoggling and hubris on Spain's limestone Costa Blanca.
Climbing Magazine
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Nevertheless he did a quixotic thing-whichwas Peter, of course, all over.
The Street of Seven Stars
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The quixotic young fellows ought not to be cut for their behaviour!
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2
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Define meritricious; prognathic; banal; vulpine; camaraderie; vilification; ennui; quixotic; naïve; pharisaism.
Americans All / Stories of American Life of To-Day
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Wait, is he the one who sent that quixotic message some months back?
Foundation and Empire
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