whim

Preposition: of

• bureaucrat: Whether the payments continue will depend to a large extent on the whims of bureaucrats in the EC or in the US administration.
• fashion: Personal firearms should not be subject to the whims of fashion.
• politician: The legal monopoly on local service remains, competition there remains restricted to the whims of politicians.
• editor: No longer must reliance be made on the memories of others or the whims of past editors who decided what must be recorded.
• moment: Its curious designation had its origin in a whim of the moment.
• owner: They make those of us doing the research dependent on the whims of owners, who tend to be less focused on our problems.

Converse of object

• indulge: Your dedicated stylist, beautician and personal shopper will indulge every whim, until you emerge calm and refreshed.
• satisfy: They usually have no specific purpose, other than to satisfy the whim or sense of mischief of the designer or builder.
• pass: Where I am scattered, the computer will execute precise, almost maniacally focused behavior, deterred by no passing whims.
• relate: I'm due for of the hr their whims related.
• follow: Don't bother trying to think through what the best response would be just follow a whim, an impulse.
• have: It has the whim of suddenly changing channels of its own accord.

Adjective modifier

• mere: Everything and everyone else seemed liable to turn turtle, bottle out or jump ship on a mere whim - Regan included.
• slight: These are the people who leap to please the slightest whim of someone in authority.
• sudden: That was no sudden whim on the writer's part.
• political: Clinical need would be the priority not political whims.
• personal: The personal whims of the skipper can decide to a great extent the relative comfort of their lives.
• own: Whether they did or not seems to have been on the basis of their own personal whim.

Modifies a noun

• hunch: Imposed on how actual betting and whims hunches and have to go.

Noun used with modifier

• horse: In the 17th century, flood water was lifted by chain pumps with tipping buckets, powered either by waterwheels or horse whims.