Examples of whim

• Those living in remote areas were considered to be at particular risk of persecution at the whim of local officials.

• If law practices did not determine legal content, there could still be moral requirements and officials' whims, but there would be no legal requirements.

• Prosecution or regulation without a rational basis is insulting and demeaning, as would be subjection to the whims of a tyrant.

• However, the assessment and collection of revenue was arbitrary and subject to the whims of the ruling feudal elite.

• This does not mean that it is rationally defensible for any person to adopt any religion at whim.

• What happens is that you may, on a whim, pronounce the noun distress with stress on the first syllable.

• Being black or white is morally arbitrary because it is determined by the whims of nature, randomly and capriciously.

• Extra-curricular work, however, can very much depend on the traditions of individual schools or the whims of head teachers.