Example sentences for: capricious

How can you use “capricious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With all due respect to Blanchett, Bette Davis, and Glenda Jackson, my favorite Elizabeth I remains Miranda Richardson's capricious, baby-talking psychopath on the BBC comedy Blackadder II . (Casting about for a new lord high executioner, she mews to Rowan Atkinson, "There are thousands of Catholics simply dying to have their heads sneaked off --and there's no one to organize it."

  • I still have a friendly (like best-friendly, soul mate, love of my life so far) relationship with a woman who is somewhat capricious with her address and my heart.

  • It's a sad reflection on the times that officials of a lunatic system look like capricious gods, whereas righteous journalists are parasites from hell.

  • To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.

  • The story quotes Jesse Jackson's reaction: that zero-tolerance policies are "arbitrary and capricious," resulting in wide racial disparities in discipline.


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