fickleness
IPA: fˈɪkʌɫnʌs
noun
- The quality of being fickle.
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Examples of "fickleness" in Sentences
- Can you imagine this kind of fickleness in our foriegn policy? joe
- Subsequently they soon changed with the fickleness which is equally characteristic of Celts.
- But even a casual student of Arab history can quote too many examples of Bedouin fickleness for one to credit the legends with their face value.
- One cause of the change was, no doubt, what is commonly called the fickleness of the multitude, but what seems to us to be merely the general law of human nature.
- Speaking of Caleb Cushing, he told me that the unreliability, the fickleness, which is usually attributed to him, is an actual characteristic, but that it is intellectual, not moral.
- Tokugawa period, the idea of fickleness would not have occurred to us; on the contrary, the dominant impression would have been that of the permanence and fixity of her life and customs.
- This is the thing which some fools call fickleness; but which is not the death of feeling, but rather its dreadful perpetuation; this shyness is the final seal of strong sentiment; this coldness is an eternal constancy.
- He had not prosecuted Kerzner and Bloomberg, because it would have been "no less than foolish" of him to go to court with a witness who put a gloss on his own participation in events, especially when his fickleness was a matter of public record.
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