The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vicariously \Vi*ca"ri*ous*ly\, adv. In a vicarious manner.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a vicarious manner. 2 indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute
WordNet
adv. indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute; "she enjoyed the wedding vicariously"
Usage examples of "vicariously".
Expressions and Body Language of Mercatorial Species 101 course - vicariously shamed shock.
On the outside, John was the knight that she and her affluent, Catholic school girlfriends had been taught to want--the handsome, ambitious breadwinner, through whom they could vicariously be successes.
Hospital, London, 1876, in which the young girl menstruated vicariously from the nipple and stomach.
Balis watched Levee move and shift as the Montagne Sergeant walked the rope vicariously with the Great Tara.
But of that fellowship that plans in unison, suffers in sympathy, enjoys vicariously, strengthens into friendship and communion of soul they knew nothing.
It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern.
We cease to oxygenise our blood vicariously as soon as we are born, but we still derive our sustenance from our mothers.
My own feeling is that the alien abduction phenomena is little more than a dreamlike sequence vicariously retrieved from memory storage.
Jonson pranced, knees high like a drum majorette, did a Nijinsky leap, shot off a flurry of tap-dance pyrotechnics, and ended with a split that transformed him into an inverted silver T and made my groin hurt vicariously.
He recognized that she had every reason to be proud of herself in establishing any sort of contact with an alien but he was afraid for her, with a fear deeper than any he had ever touched personally or vicariously.
The point was that the decision could be made vicariously, relieving the leaders of the onus of loss of face.
He is seduced and initiated into the art of living vicariously, by procuration or by pretense.
He’s the kind of person who falls in love with the past, who romanticizes it, who lives vicariously in antiquity.
Luyten City offered everything, whores for whoremongers, gambling for gamblers, Feelies for those who wanted their kicks vicariously, nude shows for voyeurs, safe drugs for those who wanted to drop out for a while, illegal and even deadly drugs for more reckless souls, drinks for drinkers, culture in the form of live drama and museums for the aesthetic, vulgarity for vulgarians and, for Lex, a meacr steak, costing a week's pay, served by a sweet-faced little girl in the scantiest of costumes who told Lex that she was off duty at local midnight and that her cost was reasonable.