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- noun Plural form of
whimsicality .
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Examples
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At times his mind wandered farther afield, and he plodded on, a mere automaton, strange conceits and whimsicalities gnawing at his brain like worms.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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At times his mind wandered farther afield, and he plodded on, a mere automaton, strange conceits and whimsicalities gnawing at his brain like worms.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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The clerks, accustomed to every change of countenance, and the odd whimsicalities to which indecision or absence of mind gives rise in
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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Lucien read over one of the charming sketches of Parisian whimsicalities which made the fortune of the paper, and Lousteau kissed him on both eyelids, and called him the providence of journalism.
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The clerks, accustomed to every change of countenance, and the odd whimsicalities to which indecision or absence of mind gives rise in
Le Colonel Chabert 2007
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By chance this carpet, by one of our cleverest designers, matched with the whimsicalities of the Chinese curtains.
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The whimsicalities of this train foreshadowed for Anthony the whimsicalities of all army administration.
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To the ordinary investigator of the whimsicalities of
Tropic Days 2003
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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.
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The whimsicalities to be found in all the books are, in fact, not random, not mere conceits, but make internal references.
Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984
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