Whig
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~ a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
Whig
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~ a supporter of the American Revolution
Whig Party
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~ a former political party in the United States; formed in 1834 in opposition to the Democratic Party; advocated a loose interpretation of the Constitution and high protective tariffs
while
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~ a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
for a while
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~ for a short time; "sit down and stay awhile"; "they settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"; "the baby was quiet for a while"
while away
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~ spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
once in a while
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~ sporadically and infrequently; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees"; "they visit New York on occasion"; "now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us"; "as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention"
whim
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~ an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
whim
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~ a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"
whimper
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~ a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way
whimper
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~ cry weakly or softly; "she wailed with pain"
whimsey
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~ an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
whimsey
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~ the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory"
whimsical
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~ determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
whimsicality
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~ the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory"
whimsicality
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~ the trait of behaving like an imp
whimsically
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~ in a fanciful manner; "the Christmas tree was fancifully decorated"
whimsy
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~ the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory"
whimsy
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~ an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
petty whin
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~ prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe