Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. idiomatic done without thinking seriously about the consequences.
Examples
“In fact, he thought again that Malcolm was precisely the type who would have tossed him over the falls on a whim if it weren't for two factors: (1) Miles worked for the Farino Family, and although the family was a pale shadow of its former self, they still commanded some respect on the street, and (2) Malcolm Kibunte knew that he would need Miles's legal skills again.”
“He was seeking to save the young man by murdering his father, yet if Karpophorus was captured, there would be no blood feud, for the Ithakan king was, after all, only hiring Karpophorus on a whim to kill someone anonymous.”
“And so on a whim she unmolded the beans from the pot and cut two slices.”
“But the Conjure-Queen miscalculated and died atrociously on a whim of the Coldlight Army, and her husband’s mind foundered as he witnessed her fate.”
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phrases
ironic detachment, get one's leg over, run wild, mad as a box of f..., keep your chin up, baker's dozen, fire a shot in anger, have a field day, go over with a fi..., as the crow flies, leap of faith, learn one's lesson and 224 more...
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John Bull
words from Washington Irving's John Bull novel
cudgel, malice, ludicrous, apt, whimsical, infest, time out of mind, poacher, rook, lest, whim, on a whim and 7 more...
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