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arbitrareitat Spanish
arbitrariedad The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.
Portuguese
caprichoso Spanish
noción Synonyms
Examples for "whimsy"
Examples for "whimsy"
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And they fell in gayly with her whimsy and called her T.O.
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In daylight it probably looked like a toy: a rich man's whimsy.
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He danced there like the whimsy sunbeam of a shaken water below.
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It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension.
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What farther whimsy of an unkind Fate had prompted his long walk?
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The big problem will come if such capriciousness sways the masses.
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And here a word as to the capriciousness of the nomenclature of artists.
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US Open: The capriciousness of golf is sometimes hard to fathom.
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The perceived capriciousness of the Guild rulings fuel screenwriters' chronic dissatisfaction.
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The capriciousness of 18th-century British justice can be hard to justify.
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As always, it was the arbitrariness of it all that shocked most.
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Charles I., with characteristic arbitrariness, carried matters with a still higher hand.
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They could not afford to have the arbitrariness and madness of war exposed.
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We deplore this unhappy trait of the weather and deeply resent its arbitrariness.
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The arbitrariness and narrowness of this theory cannot well escape the reader's attention.
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The same whimsicality is shown elsewhere in the course of the novel.
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There was something in the tone of the whimsicality that alarmed her.
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Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
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There was a casual whimsicality in its tone that always annoyed Ussa.
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For a moment the whimsicality of it interrupted the current of his feeling.
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Frivolity, flightiness and the desire to please are not such terrible crimes.
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Poor little girl, I hope it will cure her of her flightiness.
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She is firmly grounded in an industry noted for its inclination towards flightiness.
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In Schumann the flightiness finds much suitable material, though Kreisleriana is often over-stressed.
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That was well enough for her in her days of flightiness and frivolity.
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They mout get some whimsey into their heads, an' come this ways.
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There's a story that once in a spirit of whimsey, Capt.
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He is a man of whimsey and temper and also mood.
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It is a whim of Mrs. Grundy's, who is all whimsey.
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Once more the smile on her lips announced a whimsey.
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The whimsey caused another smile to ripple across her lips.
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The Tribune wooed its readers with whimsey & the Times with greater bulk of news.
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It is a whimsey, a weakness of yours, boy.
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And immediately her old whimsey returns upon her:
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Understand, this is my whimsey only.
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Since then the Tribune has dropped the whimsey and become a world newspaper and the Times has turned Republican.
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What new whimsey now?
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The extraordinary precautions taken by Roon and Paul to prevent identification, dead or alive, supports your whimsey, as you call it.
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If your whimsey, Charlotte, added she, arises from modesty, you reflect upon your sister; and, what is worse, upon your mother.
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King's tale of chemical annihilation, world apocalypse and an epochal fight between good and evil is less well stocked with home-counties whimsey.
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Scofield laughed to himself at David's "whimsey," but he halted, going with the young man as he strode across the field.