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US
/ˈhwɪmzɪkɫi, ˈwɪmzɪkɫi/
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ADVERB
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in a fanciful manner
the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated
How To Use whimsically In A Sentence
- Clive and Elsa are massively proud of the new male and female they have in their tank, whom they are now encouraging to perform a mating ritual-dance known as imprinting and whom they whimsically name Fred and Ginger. Splice
- Faith, and you are _not_ blate," said she whimsically, but indifferent to remove herself from a grasp so innocent. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
- One who transgresses the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures whimsically acting under the impulse of desire, never attains perfection, neither happiness nor the supreme goal.
- When the purchaser presents himself, they withdraw these bags from the pressure to which they are subject; the merchant, with a careless air, gives a slight push with his fist to the bottom of the crown, to raise it up, smooths the front upon his knee, and presents to your eyes an object at once whimsically fantastical, which recalls confusedly to your memory those fabulous head-dresses favored by box-keepers, aunts of opera dancers, or duennas of provincial theaters. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
- The section ends almost whimsically with the band fixating upon a repeated bop riff and then finishing with an extended atonal blast.
- But can an Assembly be dissolved arbitrarily, capriciously, whimsically, at the absolute discretion of a Chief Minister?
- If anything, this whimsically acoustic five-piece are more likely to be tipped as the next Belle & Sebastian.
- Why art thou so oddly yclept, so whimsically named - oh, got it, you play the HARP.
- This thali is made of wool: it has been whimsically hand-knitted and was purchased by my mother in a market in Pune, India. Archive 2008-02-01
- The first track opens with a sound that resonates throughout the album, a sound that conjures feelings of grandeur and regalia in one breath, but falls away whimsically and abashed in the next.