WHIMSY


Meaning of WHIMSY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Karla Hour's designs combine style and whimsy .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A touch of whimsy , fantasy or fun.

His smile broadened and his eyes twinkled with whimsy .

It contained enough witty lines to keep the creeping whimsy , indicated in the title, at bay.

None of the new stations conveyed the confident self-assurance or whimsy of their distinguished predecessors.

The earlier and well-known technique of framing up a loose panel appears to have been sacrificed to the whimsy of fashion.

Thus Wish veers dizzily from gleeful whimsy to cosmic angst; from unconfident extroversion to manic introspection.

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