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Fickle   /fˈɪkəl/   Listen
Fickle

adjective
1.
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments.  Synonym: volatile.  "A flirt's volatile affections"
2.
Liable to sudden unpredictable change.  Synonyms: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver.  "Fickle weather" , "Mercurial twists of temperament" , "A quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"



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"Fickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... their objects, which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries: here pleasure, methinks, looks like a beautiful, constant, and modest wife; it is there an impudent, fickle, and painted harlot.—COWLEY. ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... himself on his knees and mastering his wife's hand. "Grisell, Grisell, dost think I could turn to the feather-pated, dull-souled, fickle-hearted thing I know now Eleanor of Audley to be, instead ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge

... all? What then? You do not fear the men: Perchance you only wish to hide your heart, And so, you fickle flirt, You don a khaki skirt To foil the deadly ...
— Successful Recitations • Various

... assuredly have dissuaded her from the attempt which she made to force an entrance into Westminster Abbey on the coronation day, July 19, 1821. It was a painful scene when she, who had so lately been the idol of the fickle populace, was turned away from the doors amidst conflicting exclamations of derision and pity. A fortnight later, on August 2, she was officially reported to be seriously ill; on the 7th she was no more. In accordance with her own ...
— The Political History of England - Vol XI - From Addington's Administration to the close of William - IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) • George Brodrick

... feared that the Earl's mind had been too much cramped, and his feelings too much chilled, for such softening on his part as could alone, as it seemed, prevent Louis from being estranged, and left to his naturally fickle and indolent disposition. ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge


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