[ UK /fˈɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
    a flirt's volatile affections
    fickle friends
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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
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