Sample Sentences for
capricious
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    Neither democracy nor a rights-protecting constitution can defend individual liberty in a country whose law enforcement is arbitrary or capricious.
    capricious = unpredictable
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    The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.  (source)
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    But Esperanza loved her more for her capricious ways than for her propriety. Abuelita might host a group of ladies for a formal tea in the afternoon, then after they had gone, be found wandering barefoot in the grapes, with a book in her hand, quoting poetry to the birds.  (source)
    capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
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    the wind was blowing a capricious gale - now from the west, now backing around to the north,  (source)
    capricious = unpredictable
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    Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn't understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did. ... The sober, steady brutality, the economy of it all.  (source)
    caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
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    that city had been excluded from the itineraries of the steamboats because of the river's caprices  (source)
    caprices = unpredictability
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    This was irritating, as when the name of an old friend capriciously vanishes from memory.  (source)
    capriciously = suddenly and unpredictably
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    the essence of teenage capriciousness  (source)
    capriciousness = unpredictability
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Moody grew capricious. Most often he was sullen and threatening, now to Mahtob as well as to me. At other times he tried to be gentle and kind.  (source)
    capricious = impulsive and unpredictable
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    She licked the envelope shut herself and, because the notion took hold of her suddenly—a kind of caprice and nothing more—she pressed the stamp on upside down before putting the letter in the mailbox.  (source)
    caprice = unpredictable impulse
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    Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated,  (source)
    caprices = instances of impulsiveness
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    They lumbered back into the herd from which they had been so capriciously chosen and grew less and less individually recognizable.†  (source)
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    And he'd think about the capriciousness of fate: he heard stories of other people who had escaped by hiding above ceilings or immersing themselves in rivers or latrines, whereas he had merely panicked and forgotten to close and lock his door.†  (source)
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