Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a whimsical manner; freakishly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a whimsical manner; freakishly.

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  • adverb in a whimsical manner

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  • adverb in a fanciful manner

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Examples

  • * The word “one** has been referred to whimsically as the “Harvard mantra.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • * The word “one** has been referred to whimsically as the “Harvard mantra.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • * The word “one** has been referred to whimsically as the “Harvard mantra.

    Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979

  • Henry and Daisy have been to see the _lying in state_, as lying stark and dead is called whimsically, of the Duke of Sussex.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • Henry and Daisy have been to see the lying in state, as lying stark and dead is called whimsically, of the Duke of Sussex.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

  • On grave subjects she had the manner of speaking of a shy scholar, and between grave and playful, between smiling and serious, her clear head, her nobly poised character, seemed to him to have never had a prototype and to elude the art of picturing it in expression, until he heard Lydiard call her whimsically, 'Portia disrobing.'

    Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • On grave subjects she had the manner of speaking of a shy scholar, and between grave and playful, between smiling and serious, her clear head, her nobly poised character, seemed to him to have never had a prototype and to elude the art of picturing it in expression, until he heard Lydiard call her whimsically, 'Portia disrobing'

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • On grave subjects she had the manner of speaking of a shy scholar, and between grave and playful, between smiling and serious, her clear head, her nobly poised character, seemed to him to have never had a prototype and to elude the art of picturing it in expression, until he heard Lydiard call her whimsically, 'Portia disrobing'

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868

  • Every other gorgeous phrase whimsically punctuated with a tight, up-curving trill like the shudder of an arrow thwacked into a tree trunk.

    unknown title 2009

  • It's not just because they loved Jackson's sugar-pop music but, I suspect and correct me if I'm wrong because he lived in a manner that they themselves would love to savor -- a kind of whimsically perverted, high-denial, candy-cane existence in which all malignancies are ignored or suppressed in order to satisfy each and every fantasy-dream whim, without compromise or hesitation.

    INTERESTING THOUGHT FOR TODAY N A 2009

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