capricious in English
a capricious and often brutal administration
Use "capricious" in a sentence
1. His wife is very capricious.
2. Romantic heroines are often capricious.
3. For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.
4. Liable to change; capricious: Changeable weather
5. Liable to change; capricious: Changeable weather
6. Capriccioso definition, capricious; fantastic in style
7. Those allowed to be capricious Scalled youth.
8. He was a cruel and capricious tyrant.
9. 6 He was a cruel and capricious tyrant.
10. What does Changeable mean? Liable to change; capricious
11. A capricious and malevolent spirit, thing of shadows.
12. His feet turned capricious, slipping off at odd angles.
13. Her Blazing eyes always Betray her covert capricious self.
14. The novelist characterizes his heroine as capricious and passionate.
15. She was as capricious as her mother had been.
16. They want continuity of policy, not capricious or arbitrary decisions.
17. Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining the Historic Interior, 1800-1930
18. His love was capricious, brazenly conditional and in permanently short supply.
19. Regulation can vary from laissez-faire to the oppressive and capricious.
20. 7 His love was capricious, brazenly conditional and in permanently short supply.
21. Geraldton Advertiser (WA : 1893 - 1905), Wed 1 Mar 1899, Page 3 - CAPRICIOUS Carpings
22. Geraldton Advertiser (WA : 1893 - 1905), Fri 7 Oct 1904, Page 2 - CAPRICIOUS Carpings
23. Both masters and men moreover chose to depict women as wilful and capricious.
24. Whatever our endeavour, we need a measure of luck, the kiss of the capricious lady fortune.
25. Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining the Historic Interior, 1800-1930 [Winkler, Gail Caskey, Moss, Roger] on Amazon.com
26. Synonyms for Counterintuitive include unreasonable, faulty, illogical, implausible, nonsensical, absurd, capricious, contradictory, erratic and preposterous
27. Inappropriate, excessive or capricious administration of aversive stimulation has led to scandals, lawsuits and prohibitions.
28. What is certain is that the discipline imposed on them was more complex, more capricious and more cruel.
29. Synonyms for Chameleonic include variable, fluctuating, unstable, fickle, inconstant, shifting, unsteady, wavering, capricious and fluid
30. Authoritative: See: absolute , arbitrary and capricious , assertive , authentic , categorical , certain , clear , cogent , compelling , compulsory , consequential
31. The capricious and flighty Colette continued to see De Morny occasionally until the first world war.
32. Capriccioso (feminine singular capricciosa, masculine plural capricciosi, feminine plural capricciose) capricious , whimsical , finicky , naughty , unpredictable ( music ) Capriccioso
33. I revelled in the capricious vegetation wrought in iron - even the sound of water running in the urinals was pleasing.
34. Arbitrary: [adjective] existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will
35. Legislative response to that conviction can not be regarded as arbitrary or capricious and that is all we have to decide.
36. Closer analysis shows that the motif does not appear as a random or capricious feature but follows a pattern.
37. Synonyms for Constantly changing include ever-changing, continuously changing, ever-shifting, changeable, erratic, fluctuating, capricious, mercurial, quicksilver and unstable
38. They had indulged them with a capricious dominion, sometimes over the one, sometimes over the other object of desire.
39. 738 had been validly enacted but that the zoning classification thereby applied to respondent's property was arbitrary, capricious, Confiscatory, and void.
40. The Arbitrary-or-capricious test is a legal standard of review used by judges to assess the actions of administrative agencies
41. And here we are in one of the most notoriously capricious seas in the world, aboard a fantastic yacht called 20
42. The three main characters are stuck in awful work situations, with all-powerful bosses who are capricious, unfair and in some cases, lecherous.
43. For the past 15 years or so, graduates have emerged blinking into the white light of a witless and capricious boom time.
44. 15 This lefthanded compliment makes women seem attractively feminine, and yet , when a girl is capricious , her actions are reminiscent of the lowly billy goat.
45. And then there was the capricious, irreverent genius of Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, announcing the death of a traditional narrative, a voice Brashly deconstructing ideas of lineage and legacy
46. According to Smith, “Biblicists very often engage in what we might call ‘uneven and capricious selective literalism.’ Sometimes the Bible says what it says and must be obeyed
47. He is famous for almost conquering Egypt and for his brutal persecution of the Jews, which precipitated the Maccabean revolt. Antiochus Epiphanes was a ruthless and often capricious ruler.
48. (3) Furthermore, this is he at his most capricious, his most willing to turn down this or that Bypath and still wind up at the same terminus as the main road.
49. The capricious course which he at all times pursued respecting diet, -- his long fastings, his expedients for the Allayment of hunger, his occasional excesses in the most unwholesome food, and, during the latter part of his residence in
50. The Lords Appellant were a group of nobles in the reign of King Richard II, who, in 1388, sought to impeach some five of the King's favourites in order to restrain what was seen as tyrannical and capricious rule