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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    It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.  (source)
    capricious = impulsive and 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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    Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated,  (source)
    caprices = instances of impulsiveness
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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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    Leslie was so capricious. Lots of good fellows that Leslie would turn up her nose at and pronounce dull.  (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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    He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices;  (source)
    caprices = instances of impulsiveness or unpredictability
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    Edgar had never seen his father capriciously select a dog for breeding, but in those early days, there was nothing yet to call a Sawtelle Dog—just John Sawtelle's dogs.†  (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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