VICARIOUS


Meaning of VICARIOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a vicarious thrill (= one which you get when you watch or hear about someone else doing something exciting )

He clearly enjoyed the vicarious thrill of reading about grisly murders.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

liability

He sued the defendants on the grounds of their vicarious liability for his brother's negligence and breach of statutory duty.

This resulted in a strict demarcation between the employer's personal duty and his vicarious liability .

The local health authority accepted vicarious liability for this protocol.

pleasure

I laugh a lot, throwing my head back with vicarious pleasure at many of these stories.

The sense in which he has created it - by writing the poem - is acknowledged to be simply vicarious pleasure .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Many people enjoyed the vicarious thrill of military victory.

Mothers often get some vicarious pleasure from their children's success.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Disapproving as he was, he still seems to have found vicarious excitement in talking weapons.

Inevitably though, these disguises inspired in readers a sense of vicarious danger or disgust.

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