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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
capricious
ca‧pri‧cious/kəˈprɪʃəs/ adjective 1. likely to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way: ▪ She was as capricious as her mother had been.
2. literary changing quickly and suddenly: ▪ a capricious wind
—capriciously adverb
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Employees need legal protection against capricious and unfair actions by their employers. ▪ the capricious tastes of children EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A capricious and malevolent spirit, thing of shadows. ▪ Closer analysis shows that the motif does not appear as a random or capricious feature but follows a pattern. ▪ Eva Peron was vain, she was capricious, she was horribly insecure. ▪ For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious. ▪ His feet turned capricious, slipping off at odd angles. ▪ His love was capricious, brazenly conditional and in permanently short supply. ▪ Regulation can vary from laissez-faire to the oppressive and capricious.
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