: marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness
fickleness
noun
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Examples of fickle in a Sentence
The Weak will suck up to the Strong, for fear of losing their jobs and their money and all the fickle power they wielded only twenty-four hours ago.
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Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2004
The corporate fan who has replaced the core fan is a fickle beast, choosy about which games he'll use his precious free time to attend.
—E. M. Swift, Sports Illustrated, 15 May 2000
A failed play was a denial of what Odets was owed, for he was chasing the public no differently than did his bourgeois and nonrevolutionary contemporaries, a public as fickle as it always was and is.
—Arthur Miller, Harper's, March 1999
War is like hard-drug abuse or a fickle lover, an apparently contradictory bolt of compulsion, agony and ecstasy that draws you back in the face of better judgment time and time again.
—Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, 1999
He blames poor sales on fickle consumers.
a fickle friendship that was on and off over the years
Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2004
The corporate fan who has replaced the core fan is a fickle beast, choosy about which games he'll use his precious free time to attend.
—E. M. Swift, Sports Illustrated, 15 May 2000
A failed play was a denial of what Odets was owed, for he was chasing the public no differently than did his bourgeois and nonrevolutionary contemporaries, a public as fickle as it always was and is.
—Arthur Miller, Harper's, March 1999
War is like hard-drug abuse or a fickle lover, an apparently contradictory bolt of compulsion, agony and ecstasy that draws you back in the face of better judgment time and time again.
—Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, 1999
He blames poor sales on fickle consumers.
a fickle friendship that was on and off over the years
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However, Gascón could still back away from that plan in the next few hours due to sharp divisions in his office, individuals close to events caution of the fickle prosecutor.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
This furious search for a fickle sliver of the country has grown more urgent because the presidential contest is as close as any since the advent of modern polling, with the two candidates nearly deadlocked across the battleground states.
—New York Times, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
As with many innovative food companies, prices will depend on the ability to scale up, and that will depend on a fickle market.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Building and deploying wind, solar, hydroelectric, and nuclear infrastructure takes time and sometimes the sun, wind, and rain are geographically fickle.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
This furious search for a fickle sliver of the country has grown more urgent because the presidential contest is as close as any since the advent of modern polling, with the two candidates nearly deadlocked across the battleground states.
—New York Times, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
As with many innovative food companies, prices will depend on the ability to scale up, and that will depend on a fickle market.
—Christine Ro, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Building and deploying wind, solar, hydroelectric, and nuclear infrastructure takes time and sometimes the sun, wind, and rain are geographically fickle.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Fickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fickle. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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fickle
adjective
fick·le
ˈfik-əl 
: likely to change frequently without good reason : inconstant
fickle friends
fickleness
noun
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