All 3 Uses of
capricious
in
Great Expectations
- I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me.†
p. 64.9capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- 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.†
p. 138.6
- That girl's hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.
p. 185.3 *
Definition:
impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior