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单词 capricious
释义
capriciousca‧pri‧cious /kəˈprɪʃəs/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Employees need legal protection against capricious and unfair actions by their employers.
  • the capricious tastes of children
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A capricious and malevolent spirit, thing of shadows.
  • Closer analysis shows that the motif does not appear as a random or capricious feature but follows a pattern.
  • Eva Peron was vain, she was capricious, she was horribly insecure.
  • For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.
  • His feet turned capricious, slipping off at odd angles.
  • His love was capricious, brazenly conditional and in permanently short supply.
  • Regulation can vary from laissez-faire to the oppressive and capricious.
1likely to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way:  She was as capricious as her mother had been.2 literary changing quickly and suddenly:  a capricious windcapriciously adverb
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