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fickle

adjective

Changing loyalties, preferences, or attitudes unpredictably.

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The fickle audience embraced one style in spring and rejected it by autumn.
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A fickle stall buyer requested bright badges one morning, rejected the same colors that evening, and offered no reason for her unpredictable changes of preference.
From Fashion at the Night Market.

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This entry is part of the vocabulary collection supplied by GlobalRPh. Definitions are concise study meanings. Examples combine original teaching sentences with selected passages adapted from the supplied study notes; their source is labeled beside each example. A word may have additional specialized or historical senses.

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FICKLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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