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parenthetic
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Definition:1. of a speech or talk that aimlessly digresses; rambly2. a remark added off to the side, as if in parentheses
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“No; you would meet most of them on higher ground. If they didn’t know it, that would be their discredit. I should think you could see that,” she added, in a quick, parenthetic averse way, “from their associate. If you want to get a higher opinion of the value of your life, compare it with an ordinary, foolish, useless one—like mine.”
Milicent Washburn Shinn. Young Strong of "The Clarion". (1884)
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Fred having opened the piano, at his father’s desire, that Rosamond might give them some music, was parenthetically performing “Cherry Ripe!” with one hand. Able men who have passed their examinations will do these things sometimes, not less than the plucked Fred.George Eliot. Middlemarch
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