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词汇 whimsically
释义 whimsically
adverb
uk /ˈwɪm.zɪ.kəl.i/ us /ˈwɪm.zɪ.kəl.i/
in a whimsical way (= unusual and strange in a way that might be funny or annoying):
He was whimsically charming and especially warm with children.
It is a refreshingly quirky adult fairy tale set in a whimsically surreal world.
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whimsical
Furniture and books are displayed in a whimsically Gothic interior.
The whimsically irregular wooden benches and tables are made by the talented staff.
The whimsically decorated shack serves fried green tomatoes and alligator pizza every night.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Strange, suspicious and unnatural
aberrant
aberrantly
abnormal
abnormally
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freakishly
freakishness
funnily
funnily enoughidiom
ghostliness
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perversely
perversity
perverted
pervy
unorthodox
wack
wackadoodle
wackily
wackiness

Examples of whimsically


whimsically
Semitonal slips in the melodic lines slowly expand to larger intervals, and the percussion tattoos return, this time whimsically.
Are we going to have a fixed budget each year, determined almost whimsically by civil servants?
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That falls from him very whimsically, and not justly.
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One of the boats contained what was rather whimsically described in the first answer as drums of chemical waste.
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However, perhaps we looked at it, as trade unionists, rather whimsically, because it was usually inefficient.
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The problem which has been evident in all the speeches in the debate is that they can be used arbitrarily and whimsically in the industrial relations and collective bargaining processes.
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The soldier looked at him whimsically.
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The 2321 was whimsically known as the noodle picker since the removable magnetic strips were flexible and resembled lasagna noodles.
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The proposed phenomena was whimsically named cosmic iron whiskers and served as the thermalization mechanism.
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Glass forms protrude from the background surface, whimsically frolicking with and redefining underlying blocks of color and lead scribbles.
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However, it is the first known instance of an animal producing light by this effect and was whimsically dubbed shrimpoluminescence upon its discovery in 2001.
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The two whimsically frolic all night and the scene ends with them exhausted by the nights activities.
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It is said that humans can summon her to have their wishes granted in exchange for compensation, though she often acts whimsically.
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She is known for her whimsically prolix movie titles.
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Between the shimmering synth builds and the whimsically young yet honest lyrics, this is a collection that truly shines.
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