adverb

• In a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person.

  ‘she was living vicariously through her children’

  More example sentences

  • ‘we vicariously participate in their daily rituals’
  • ‘By representing us, the athlete makes all of us vicariously completed men.’
  • ‘He refers to the sympathetic reader who vicariously extrapolates the speaker's pain.’
  • ‘Tchaikovsky's tragic sense of guilt led him to project himself vicariously into his female characters to convey the emotions he felt for men.’
  • ‘In the postmodern text, experiencing the sublime by vicariously transcending the self is an object of satire.’
  • ‘In movies we get to vicariously fight back against the things or people that do the dirty on us.’