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whim

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That was 2010, when Williamson was seven, less than two years after painting his first picture on a whim.

And neither he, nor his secret police squad or some lawyer from Detroit, get to change that unilaterally on a whim.

Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?

These demands can increase at whim, and worsen with the birth of a child.

She was distraught and sad walking through a park on Long Island when she joined a drum circle on a whim.

She was not a puffer, but a puffer-whim worked near by, called the Valley puffer.

This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom.

In short, he may gratify his every whim and fancy, without a pang of reposing conscience, or the least jostle of his self-respect.

Here, every stroke was to be recorded, each passing whim and mood registered, as in a book of fate.

She paid no thought to the value of money, never knowing how to resist a whim.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whim, such as: impulse, inclination, vagary, caprice, conceit, and craze.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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