whimsey
Americannoun
plural
whimseysExample Sentences
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Also, if you haven’t yet seen the 2016 film “Alice: Through the Looking Glass,” you can cap off the summer with a bit of Wonderland whimsey.
From Fox News • Jul. 30, 2020
As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
From Time • Sep. 17, 2013
With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, because violence is done to the original�there was no love interest in the books, for example, except between animals�even the underlying whimsey is worn away.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm all right, I'm gettin' on all right,'—an' then 'e went; seemed to go ower the whimsey an' back towards th' wood.
From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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