Meaning of whimsome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised or marked by whim; whimsical

Examples

“Indeed, while I worked away at various duties concerning my rank and station, the country folk conspired against me, muttering suspiciously behind closed doors like⟳ a band of cowardly rodents, and so chanced one another into some dreadfully whimsome labels and a fairly hasty, hand-tailored casus belli – all seditious themes which turned distrust to anger and anger to transgression, whence a single handful of...agitators somehow convinced their would-be peers that my assets and, more importantly, my right, had somehow worsened their condition.”

“John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile⟳ covering the fact that he has done something awful.”

“A condescending tone is evident in a Photoplay article titled “Little Miss⟳ Practicality” in which the author characterizes her as a “Winsome, whimsome little lady” and “just a charming, fascinatingly pretty girl, whose charm is such a strange, wayward, elusively and delightfully feminine thing”.”

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