capriciouslyadv.
/kəˈprɪʃəsli/, U.S. /kəˈprɪʃəsli/, /kəˈpriʃəsli/ In a capricious manner, according to caprice: arbitrarily.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adverb] > capriciously
unstaidly1556
fantastically1567
humorously1593
skittishly1598
fantasticly1599
garishly1606
humoursomely1653
whimsily1654
quirkishly1673
peevishlya1680
whimsically1711
fancifully1741
capriciously1746
flightily1780
erratically1861
tricksily1866
vagariously1892
quirkily1926
1746 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs 24 One is tempted to exclaim against the King of Terrors, and call him capriciously cruel.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlviii. 177 A power arbitrarily assumed and capriciously applied.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxvi. 217 This ice-opening was instructive..because it taught..us..how capriciously insecure was our position.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 663 How capriciously Scottish and Northumbrian affairs are entered or not entered in our national annals.
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