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capricious
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synonyms: vagarious, mercurial, ~figary, ~quixotic ???
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Definition:moody, unpredictable
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his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata.
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all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable— they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness— and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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By what right then would God be angry with beings, who were naturally incapable of knowing the divine essence? God would be evidently the most unjust and capricious of tyrants, if he should punish an Atheist for not having known, what, by his nature, it was impossible he should know.
Baron D'Holbach. Good Sense (1772)
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she had a capricious and hasty temper, and indifferent ideas of principle or justice
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Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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