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Значения термина whimsicality на английском

каталонский
arbitrareitat
испанский
arbitrariedad

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

arbitrareitat
каталонский
caprici
испанский
sagacidad

The trait of behaving like an imp.

caprici
Синонимы
Examples for "mischievousness"
Examples for "mischievousness"
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Alberto Iglesias's score wheezes its way to a melancholy tinged with mischievousness.
The Irish Times
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Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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She smiled with a sweet mischievousness-justas my father used to smile-andanswered:
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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Not in charity, because you are convinced of the grave social mischievousness of charity.
Mr. Prohack
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He had just the right blend of energy and mischievousness.
The Irish Times
1
There was in this something of impishness, and something of other things.
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
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Snub nose and short, bristling, red hair emphasized the impression of impishness.
Gather, Darkness!
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Kara's face instantly became serious and the impishness left her tone.
Unity
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The girl's face had gone politely blank, but then she twinkled with impishness.
Sushi for one?
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But his impishness still comes as something of a surprise.
The Irish Times
1
The director's puckishness starts to grate pretty quickly.
The Irish Times
2
His voice is a little raspier than it once was, but that signature puckishness is fully intact.
The Irish Times
3
Here, as he rolls a joint to the disapproval of his married friend's square wife, he has Peter's insolence and puckishness.
The Guardian
Использование термина whimsicality на английском
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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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arbitrareitatcapricicapritxantull
Whimsicality через время
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