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Significados de whimsicality en inglés

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The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.

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The trait of behaving like an imp.

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Uso de whimsicality en inglés
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The same whimsicality is shown elsewhere in the course of the novel.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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There was something in the tone of the whimsicality that alarmed her.
Constance Dunlap
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Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality.
Young Lives
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There was a casual whimsicality in its tone that always annoyed Ussa.
Broken Circle
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For a moment the whimsicality of it interrupted the current of his feeling.
A Little Journey in the World
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The whimsicality, the childishness of it all, gave it a charm.
A Man and a Woman
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Depressed and intent as he was, the whimsicality of the situation struck him.
Their Pilgrimage
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Here is a whimsicality you would not find, I think, among another people.
Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
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There was a whimsicality about Gower's way of taking this that pleased MacRae.
Poor Man's Rock
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The local example of the whimsicality of Nature owes its excellence to absolute purity.
Tropic Days
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He complains of the wine given him at a dinner-party with a finished whimsicality:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Behind the whimsicality there was something earnest in his appeal.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
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He was tall and humorous, with hornedrimmed glasses and an air of attractive whimsicality.
The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
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Delighting in saying words that would hurt; delighting in his own whimsicality that would amuse.
If Winter Comes
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Thus a strange wilfulness and whimsicality has wrought itself into the substance of his mind.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
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For one source of her charm lay in the gay, childlike whimsicality of her imagination.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also t...
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