The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.
1 They mout get some whimsey into their heads, an' come this ways.
2 There's a story that once in a spirit of whimsey , Capt.
3 He is a man of whimsey and temper and also mood.
4 It is a whim of Mrs. Grundy's, who is all whimsey .
5 Once more the smile on her lips announced a whimsey .
6 The whimsey caused another smile to ripple across her lips.
7 The Tribune wooed its readers with whimsey & the Times with greater bulk of news.
8 It is a whimsey , a weakness of yours, boy.
9 And immediately her old whimsey returns upon her:
10 Understand, this is my whimsey only.
11 Since then the Tribune has dropped the whimsey and become a world newspaper and the Times has turned Republican.
13 The extraordinary precautions taken by Roon and Paul to prevent identification, dead or alive, supports your whimsey , as you call it.
14 If your whimsey , Charlotte, added she, arises from modesty, you reflect upon your sister; and, what is worse, upon your mother.
15 King's tale of chemical annihilation, world apocalypse and an epochal fight between good and evil is less well stocked with home-counties whimsey .
16 Scofield laughed to himself at David's " whimsey , " but he halted, going with the young man as he strode across the field.
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