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whimsicality

[hwim-zi-kal-i-tee, wim-] / ˌʰwɪm zɪˈkæl ɪ ti, ˌwɪm- /








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There’s a screw-it-all whimsicality coursing through the breezy, five-song set, which Thompson describes as sort of a warmup project ahead of a full-length album with heavyweight Seattle producer Jake One due early next year.

From Seattle Times Sep. 7, 2022

Mixing the ironic whimsicality of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” with the premise and structure of “The Monkees,” “Conchords” was twice as delightful when it landed for being so unexpected and unpredictable.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2022

It’s the difference between a real bookstore and one that smells like potpourri, and between wit and whimsicality.

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2021

A certain whimsicality is more than offset by that striking image of the clouds as "hunchèd camels".

From The Guardian Dec. 17, 2012

She clearly recognized the extravagant whimsicality of sitting down to dinner in such company, at such a season, and in such a place.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith

They are the newsworthy survivors of a long list of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, utterances, and doings of known people, and, so far as Miscellany is concerned, the whimsicalities and outrages of the unknown.

From Time Magazine Archive

To strengthen its hand in negotiations, the union began a campaign to dispel the notion that its members are an irresponsible lot given to ill-timed whimsicalities.

From Time Magazine Archive

In London, Christopher Robin Milne, 27, storybook hero of father A. A. Milne's famed whimsicalities, announced that this summer he would marry Lesley Selin-court, 22, a librarian.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had married an American girl, the daughter of a comedian at whose clever whimsicalities my passengers used to laugh uproariously.

From Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

Lamb would have understood Johnson better than Johnson would have understood the whimsicalities of the witty clerk.

From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb




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