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UK
/fˈɪkəl/
]
[ US /ˈfɪkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
liable to sudden unpredictable change
mercurial twists of temperament
fickle weather
a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next
erratic behavior -
marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
a flirt's volatile affections
fickle friends
How To Use fickle In A Sentence
- He'd probably dismissed her altogether by now as fickle, shallow and all too easily swayed by other people.
- As long as they read, short but fickle.
- Forever fickle, he has now become interested in old wooden carvings.
- Your death was determined to be “sudden unexplained death in epilepsy,” a term so cruelly nonsensical it might as well have been “fickle finger of fate.” Knowing Jesse
- Ah, but voters are fickle and rarely take into consideration the desires of distant princelings (or columnists, for that matter).
- And he thinks the reason is that the fickle finger of fashion pointed at Wells at just the right time. Times, Sunday Times
- The fickle nature of hurricanes straying so far north means that there may only be hours of warning before a hurricane strikes. Times, Sunday Times
- The mainly south-westerly air-stream, alternating with south-easterlies, turned the beat to Temple into a series of short tacks as the fickle breeze tempted boats on to a course before dying away and changing direction.
- Especially in the so-called fickle word of fashion. Jess Blanch: Vogue Paris: Let the People Weigh in
- Heroes prove valiant in battle but fickle as lovers. Times, Sunday Times