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Meanings of fickleness in English

Portuguese
inconstância
Catalan
inconstància

Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous.

inconstância
Usage of fickleness in English
1
No contemporary politician is more attuned to the fickleness of public opinion.
The Irish Times
2
The cause is her utter fickleness; but she never really loved him.
Put Yourself in His Place
3
We are made provident and sagacious by the fickleness of our climate.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
4
Yet in her, too, was a passionate loyalty that made fickleness impossible.
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
5
With typical human fickleness, they jumped from one extreme to the other.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
6
They warned of the fickleness of minors in such an intimidating arena.
The Irish Times
7
Gloucester have changed their playing style this season but not their fickleness.
The Guardian
8
When the predator finally does pounce, it does so with extraordinary fickleness.
The Guardian
9
Nothing but affection could justify such fickleness, but affection did justify it.
Barchester Towers
10
Their levity, their fickleness, their passionate extravagance of character, cannot be defended.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
11
You would palliate your unfaithfulness, represent your fickleness of mind as magnanimity!
The Youth of the Great Elector
12
This is not fickleness; it is Nature; and there is a natural remedy-progress
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886
13
That's the law, which appears remarkably unresponsive to the fickleness of food trends.
The Guardian
14
In fact, she often wondered at the fickleness of human feelings.
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
15
A good part of its attraction lies in the fickleness of its aspect.
Their Pilgrimage
16
Extravagance and fickleness are advertised in most of these new houses.
The Mansion
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Portuguese
inconstância
Fickleness through the time
Fickleness across language varieties
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