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quixotic
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synonyms: ~capricious ???
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Definition:1. impulsive2. impractically idealistic or chivalric; fixated on noble deeds and unattainable goals
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“Offer to take that girl’s punishment for her. Do you know her?” I felt a certain diffidence about asking, but I really wanted to know what lay behind that quixotic gesture.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I would add at once, if there be any one present who has heard enough, if there be one among the party who recoils from a dangerous confidence and a piece of Quixotic devotion to he knows not whom— here is my hand ready, and I shall wish him good-night and God-speed with all the sincerity in the world.”
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Suicide Club
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ALGERNON. Well, would you mind my reforming myself this afternoon?
CECILY. It is rather Quixotic of you. But I think you should try.
ALGERNON. I will. I feel better already.
CECILY. You are looking a little worse.
ALGERNON. That is because I am hungry.
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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Rose wasted no idle dreams on Quixotic plans of getting rid of Allnutt and conducting the African Queen single-handed;
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.48 (1935)
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She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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