Words similar to whimsy
Example sentences for: whimsy
How can you use “whimsy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
She and her cousin compare breasts, play with vibrators, and talk in pig Latinish gibberish, but Jenkins never lets the proceedings get too sentimental: The whimsy is always cut with an acidic awareness of the family's desperation.
Having occasionally confronted your "whimsical" sister with the true version of events, and apparently getting nowhere, Prudie suggests you have a tough conversation outlining the potential damage dishonesty can create in relationships with those having less "whimsy."
She constantly embellishes her stories and everyday conversation with nonsensical, made-up whimsy that she expects people to take at face value.
Such humor or whimsy tends, in Johnson's work at any rate, to be of a fairly cynical turn--in keeping both with his general opinionatedness and with his specific feelings of demoralization while compiling the dictionary in the run-up to its publication in 1755.
What I wanted, however, was a larger perspective, something more insightful than the one-thing-after-another existential whimsy that made Bottle Rocket such a trial.