The trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment.
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.
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Examples for "capriciousness "
Examples for "capriciousness "
1 The big problem will come if such capriciousness sways the masses.
2 And here a word as to the capriciousness of the nomenclature of artists.
3 US Open: The capriciousness of golf is sometimes hard to fathom.
4 The perceived capriciousness of the Guild rulings fuel screenwriters' chronic dissatisfaction.
5 The capriciousness of 18th-century British justice can be hard to justify.
1 As always, it was the arbitrariness of it all that shocked most.
2 Charles I., with characteristic arbitrariness , carried matters with a still higher hand.
3 They could not afford to have the arbitrariness and madness of war exposed.
4 We deplore this unhappy trait of the weather and deeply resent its arbitrariness .
5 The arbitrariness and narrowness of this theory cannot well escape the reader's attention.
1 The same whimsicality is shown elsewhere in the course of the novel.
2 There was something in the tone of the whimsicality that alarmed her.
3 Your office may be stored with records of human perversity and whimsicality .
4 There was a casual whimsicality in its tone that always annoyed Ussa.
5 For a moment the whimsicality of it interrupted the current of his feeling.
1 Frivolity, flightiness and the desire to please are not such terrible crimes.
2 Poor little girl, I hope it will cure her of her flightiness .
3 She is firmly grounded in an industry noted for its inclination towards flightiness .
4 In Schumann the flightiness finds much suitable material, though Kreisleriana is often over-stressed.
5 That was well enough for her in her days of flightiness and frivolity.
1 They mout get some whimsey into their heads, an' come this ways.
2 There's a story that once in a spirit of whimsey , Capt.
3 He is a man of whimsey and temper and also mood.
4 It is a whim of Mrs. Grundy's, who is all whimsey .
5 Once more the smile on her lips announced a whimsey .
1 And they fell in gayly with her whimsy and called her T.O.
2 In daylight it probably looked like a toy: a rich man's whimsy .
3 He danced there like the whimsy sunbeam of a shaken water below.
4 It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension.
5 What farther whimsy of an unkind Fate had prompted his long walk?
6 He felt drunk with whimsy , and afraid the buzz would wear off.
7 If you prefer naturalism to postmodern whimsy , then no mad plots either.
8 Indeed, the garage-born Internet of Things isn't all whimsy and cats.
9 An immature label, perhaps, but one that appealed to his sense of whimsy .
10 I think it's just a place of incredible whimsy , and fantasy.
11 The look has a neatness that suggests controlled drama, rather than fairytale whimsy .
12 But these add a refreshing dose of whimsy to the otherwise super-practical accessory.
13 Every day a new whimsy , and our humours keep motion with the time.
14 Instead, wander the forest with your gear and see where whimsy takes you.
15 I'll not leave my post on the whimsy of some interlopers.
16 The Bed Song has a staggered momentum, with Palmer whimsy interrupting at will.
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