All 5 Uses of
capricious
in
David Copperfield
- I saw her, a most beautiful little creature, with the cloudless blue eyes, that had looked into my childish heart, turned laughingly upon another child of Minnie's who was playing near her; with enough of wilfulness in her bright face to justify what I had heard; with much of the old capricious coyness lurking in it; but with nothing in her pretty looks, I am sure, but what was meant for goodness and for happiness, and what was on a good and happy course.†
Chpt 19-21
- I dare say I am a capricious fellow, David.
Chpt 22-24 *capricious = impulsive and unpredictable
- The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.'†
Chpt 31-33
- If I had been his wife, I could have been the slave of his caprices for a word of love a year.†
Chpt 55-57
- A few slight indications of a rather petted and capricious manner, which I observed in the Beauty, were manifestly considered, by Traddles and his wife, as her birthright and natural endowment.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior