All 5 Uses of
capricious
in
Little Dorrit
- Year after year, so much allowance for the drifting of the boat, so many miles an hour the flowing of the stream, here the rushes, there the lilies, nothing uncertain or unquiet, upon this road that steadily runs away; while you, upon your flowing road of time, are so capricious and distracted.†
Chpt 1.16
- The devotion of Mr Sparkler was only to be equalled by the caprice and cruelty of his enslaver.†
Chpt 2.7
- Miss Fanny was now in the difficult situation of being universally known in that light, and of not having dismissed Mr Sparkler, however capriciously she used him.†
Chpt 2.14
- 'Fanny,' returned Mr Dorrit, 'I am amazed, I am displeased by this—hum—this capricious and unintelligible display of animosity towards—ha—Mrs General.'†
Chpt 2.15
- It is better to be torn to pieces at a spring, than to be a mouse at the caprice of such a cat.
Chpt 2.30 *caprice = impulsiveness (and resultant unpredictability)
Definition:
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(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior