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fickle-minded

American  
[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

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"And she's just fickle-minded enough to turn up her nose at Jack if he got beat," Dade grumbled, thinking of a certain señorita.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto

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 Tracy, Louis

We had to drive those hogs home—ten miles; and no ladies were ever more fickle-minded or contrary.

From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. by Twain, Mark

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 Anderson, Rasmus Björn

He says he was always a fickle-minded fellow, one fancy driving another out of his mind.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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