whimsicalin a sentence
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It was an especially whimsical episode of Family Guy.whimsical = playful or amusing
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Indeed, the fact that biotechnology can be applied to the industries traditionally subject to the vagaries of fashion... heightens concern about the whimsical use of this powerful new technology. (source)whimsical = playful (determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity or reason)
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But he was able to set up a file for a nonexistent student, whom he whimsically named God. (source)whimsically = impulsively (not by reason or necessity)
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Even in bronze, he had a whimsical look, and I thought this friend had sculpted a little spirit as well. (source)whimsical = playful
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"The winter loves me," he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, "I mean as much as you can say a season can love." (source)whimsical = playful (impulsive and amusing rather than reasoned)
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If she'd had time to think about it, Alice might have stopped herself, considering the idea too whimsical. (source)whimsical = impulsive and playful
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There was a whimsical candy-colored sculpture on the lawn that looked like a bunch of child's toys glued together without reason or order. (source)whimsical = playful (with a design determined by impulse rather than by necessity or reason)
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...subject to the whim or whimsy of my mother, (source)whimsy = impulse (rather than necessity or reason)
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He sighed whimsically.† (source)whimsically = in a way that is playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational
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"People have their whimsies," he said.† (source)
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With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a sea-chest; and emptying into it his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there.† (source)whimsiness = the quality of being playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rationalstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.† (source)
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He would be whimsical, generous, mysterious with his money. (source)whimsical = playful
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IN THE YEAR 1919, EDGAR'S GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS BORN WITH an extra share of whimsy, bought their land and all the buildings on it from a man he'd never met, a man named Schultz, who in his turn had walked away from a logging team half a decade earlier after seeing the chains on a fully loaded timber sled let go.† (source)whimsy = playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational
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Shoulder to shoulder, half standing, half sitting, they faced their childhood home whose architecturally confused medieval references seemed now to be whimsically lighthearted; their mother's migraine was a comic interlude in a light opera, the sadness of the twins a sentimental extravagance, the incident in the kitchen no more than the merry jostling of lively spirits.† (source)whimsically = in a way that is playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational
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She got in and rode with him for two miles before realizing that the whimsies of nighttime reception were bringing them KCUF down from Kinneret, and that the disk jockey talking was her husband, Mucho.† (source)
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