adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a vicarious thrill (= one which you get when you watch or hear about someone else doing something exciting )
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He clearly enjoyed the vicarious thrill of reading about grisly murders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
liability
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He sued the defendants on the grounds of their vicarious liability for his brother's negligence and breach of statutory duty.
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This resulted in a strict demarcation between the employer's personal duty and his vicarious liability .
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The local health authority accepted vicarious liability for this protocol.
pleasure
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I laugh a lot, throwing my head back with vicarious pleasure at many of these stories.
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The sense in which he has created it - by writing the poem - is acknowledged to be simply vicarious pleasure .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many people enjoyed the vicarious thrill of military victory.
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Mothers often get some vicarious pleasure from their children's success.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Disapproving as he was, he still seems to have found vicarious excitement in talking weapons.
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Inevitably though, these disguises inspired in readers a sense of vicarious danger or disgust.