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Capricious

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Capricious meaning

Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.

Example sentences (20)

Battles for the ear of this shallow and capricious monarch turned his court into the scene of constant internecine struggle between the ever-shifting factions within the building.

From there anything is possible, such is the capricious nature of knockout cricket, but England’s place among the leading contenders is still justified.

It is no coincidence that Jones’s books are peppered with adults who are tyrannical, or vain and capricious, or simply mistaken.

Rodrigues asserts that the GPA’s refusal to accept his membership application is arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable, which is contrary to the Constitution of the GPA and the principle of fairness and natural justice.

The argument was that the risk model assumptions about safe doses to the public were “an Arbitrary and Capricious standard as applied to rulemaking” and thus challengeable in US law.

A federal judge reinstated both parts of the program in 2022, saying the revocation was arbitrary and capricious.

Because, what if officials suddenly became less corrupt and less capricious?

Capricious application of the law and of justice undermines our dignity and undermines authority.

Symister added that the move was “arbitrary and capricious” stating that the UPP was given no time to appeal the decision.

A fictitious drama with a semi-autobiographical feel to it, Netflix’s original Japanese series “Followers” delves into the capricious and obsessive world of social media and the highs and lows associated with Insta-fame.

And can a capricious police-state dynasty ever reach authentic technology take-off?

Brooks zombies are single-minded, and like Gemini, sometimes seem capricious and superficial.

Here, it could not be stated that the respondent’s defence was in any way capricious.

However, these electronic spies can only operate so long as the nations they are spying on respect the norms of international law—a risky proposition when tensions are high and the nation in question is governed by a capricious regime.

The 5-4 court ruling on June 18 put the brakes on ending DACA, at least temporarily, stating that the Trump administration’s actions in rescinding the program were “arbitrary and capricious,” Catholic News Service reported.

The highest court in the country left the door open for Trump to attempt again to rescind the program, ruling only that the administration had not met a procedural requirement and its actions were (quote) "arbitrary and capricious" under federal law.

He said the administration cut too many procedural corners, made “arbitrary and capricious” decisions, and ignored the protections Congress has laid out for people seeking asylum.

HHS approval of the Arkansas work requirement was “arbitrary and capricious because it did not address…whether and how the project would implicate the ‘core’ objective of Medicaid: the provision of medical coverage to the needy,” wrote Boasberg.

How Palace could have done with their talisman on a day when a capricious wind whipped around Vicarage Road.

It starts in a decorative way, a capricious way: some aristocrat wants to kidnap some young sisters or nuns or whatever but then it goes gradually towards the arbitrary, to the unfairness.