The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.
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Examples for "whimsy "
Examples for "whimsy "
1 And they fell in gayly with her whimsy and called her T.O.
2 In daylight it probably looked like a toy: a rich man's whimsy .
3 He danced there like the whimsy sunbeam of a shaken water below.
4 It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension.
5 What farther whimsy of an unkind Fate had prompted his long walk?
1 The big problem will come if such capriciousness sways the masses.
2 And here a word as to the capriciousness of the nomenclature of artists.
3 US Open: The capriciousness of golf is sometimes hard to fathom.
4 The perceived capriciousness of the Guild rulings fuel screenwriters' chronic dissatisfaction.
5 The capriciousness of 18th-century British justice can be hard to justify.
1 As always, it was the arbitrariness of it all that shocked most.
2 Charles I., with characteristic arbitrariness , carried matters with a still higher hand.
3 They could not afford to have the arbitrariness and madness of war exposed.
4 We deplore this unhappy trait of the weather and deeply resent its arbitrariness .
5 The arbitrariness and narrowness of this theory cannot well escape the reader's attention.
1 The same whimsicality is shown elsewhere in the course of the novel.
2 There was something in the tone of the whimsicality that alarmed her.
3 Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality .
4 There was a casual whimsicality in its tone that always annoyed Ussa.
5 For a moment the whimsicality of it interrupted the current of his feeling.
1 Frivolity, flightiness and the desire to please are not such terrible crimes.
2 Poor little girl, I hope it will cure her of her flightiness .
3 She is firmly grounded in an industry noted for its inclination towards flightiness .
4 In Schumann the flightiness finds much suitable material, though Kreisleriana is often over-stressed.
5 That was well enough for her in her days of flightiness and frivolity.
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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