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Meanings of whim in английском
португальский
caprichoso испанский
noción Synonyms
Examples for "impulse"
Examples for "impulse"
1
The solution was more the result of an impulse than careful planning.
2
The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
3
The impulse behind H&F's ambitions seems to come from a different place.
4
In the spirit of mischief, he followed the impulse of the moment.
5
Still, quite a lot of the original impulse behind MacKaye's vision survives.
1
Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice.
2
You've insulted me; I can be very vicious, simply out of caprice.
3
Poets have, in all ages, called this the caprice of the waves.
4
The root for caprice even shares a root word for your sign.
5
There was, perhaps, in his conduct something of the caprice of contempt.
Usage of whim in английском
1
His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim.
2
Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim.
3
Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim.
4
Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim.
5
The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
6
The whole place proclaimed itself to be the whim of a despot.
7
To Christophe the remark was nothing but the whim of a moment.
8
This was no mere passing whim on the part of the emperor.
9
I don't like the idea of things being changed by a whim.
10
This tobacco had been a whim of mine in more prosperous times.
11
Then a whim seized her, and she sat up, grave and eager.
12
I traveled the world to follow my interests on the slightest whim.
13
He will be wealthy, and in a position to gratify any whim.
14
Lots of people have discovered their hidden gifts by following a whim.
15
It was reopened on a Tudor whim; it closes on Cromwell's command.
16
He rushed to the whim-room, but found the boy still sleeping soundly.
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Whim across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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