"far-fetchedly" meaning in English

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          "text": "At first glance, Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia epitomises an art-form that has for 400 years fetishised victimhood, objectified women, and rewarded their sexual activity with death. (Consensuality is rarely a material factor.) But in this opera there is no sense ­ however far-fetchedly misogynistic ­ of the victim having \"asked for it\".",
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          "text": "In the course of his argument Fish does some close analysis of particular texts, sometimes brilliantly, sometimes far-fetchedly, as when he wants the word \"raised\" in \"Paradise Lost\" to mean not only what it seems to mean but also its opposite, \"razed\"; or when he finds, in Milton's account of the war in heaven, too unwieldy a bundle of sexual puns.",
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          "text": "\"She's a scream.\" Apply it to the British writer Fay Weldon, because her novels can be far-fetchedly funny and because what the comedy fetches is a far-ranging order of women's fury. Fury at men, conspicuously, and also at themselves, which is why she has been called both feminist and antifeminist.",
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          "text": "That the poisoned Alexander Litvinenko is perceived as a \"traitor\" in Russia is beyond doubt. But nobody has so far presented evidence that he was actually poisoned by the FSB or, more far-fetchedly, on Mr Putin's orders.",
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          "text": "Raymond Gunt is not a nice person. He might just be, as more than one character in Douglas Coupland’s 14th novel remarks, the Worst. Person. Ever. He’s far-fetchedly horrible. A grotesque. A supernova of bad karmic energy.",
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