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Examples of capricious
capricious
Business cycles can be capricious, as officials for Tata Motors are discovering.
From the time.com
Tatum was neither capricious nor joyful with her decision to discontinue sports.
From the nytimes.com
It is the capricious whims of fate that determine the variables of a human life.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They also need to be able to deal with capricious regulatory and fiscal regimes.
From the economist.com
Democracy is unreliable, capricious, and corruptible, to the extent that we are.
From the businessweek.com
So the cease-and-desist orders seem even more capricious and badly thought out.
From the sfgate.com
Matt is deeply serious about what first sounded like a purely capricious mission.
From the newsobserver.com
A country bumpkin, Nemorino, falls for a capricious, wealthy farm owner, Adina.
From the nytimes.com
Stroud was happy, but he also knows how long and capricious an NFL season can be.
From the buffalonews.com
- Changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
- 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"
- (capriciously) unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly variable"
- (capriciously) in a capricious manner; "there were Turk's head lilies and patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set capriciously in the green sea"
- (capriciousness) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
- (capriciousness) flightiness: 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"
- *For the card game, see: Capricieuse
- Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim
- (Capriciousness) noun, one who does things at the spur of the moment and unpredictably.
