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fickle-minded

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[fik-uhl-mahyn-did] / ˈfɪk əlˈmaɪn dɪd /

adjective

  1. (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.


Etymology

Origin of fickle-minded

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

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Loke is fair and beautiful of face, but evil in disposition, and very fickle-minded.

From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson

A recent shift of channel by the fickle-minded Mica Creek had undermined almost to the door of this snug little home, and Andy reckoned it would go down river on the next spring rise.

From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

I cannot think you fickle-minded, For you were always very kind to me; Fate's thunderclap by which my eyes are blinded Rewards my old, forgotten sins, I see.

From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa

Then we quietly continued along the ridge of a high bluff until we came to an outstretched point, where beneath us lay the Snake Valley with its fickle-minded river winding through.

From A Woman Tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

He was an outlaw, hunted and despised, depending for his life on the caprice of a fickle-minded woman.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy

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