vagarious
Americanadjective
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characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious.
a vagarious foreign policy.
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roving; wandering.
vagarious artists.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- vagariously adverb
Etymology
Origin of vagarious
Example Sentences
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It is a troubling state of affairs indeed if the vagarious interests of one federal prosecutor, acting outside of public view, can determine so much about an individual’s future.
From Salon
Not a memory had traversed the ground since to blur a detail, though now the adult faculties could apprehend distortion, the beautiful vagarious distortion that can live in a brain over toddling feet.
From Project Gutenberg
Mr. Robbins has laughed at our solicitude; he tells us that these are the vagarious fancies and exuberant whims of youth and that they will duly die out.
From Project Gutenberg
This may be a whimsical conclusion to the study of a personality so perplexing and vagarious as Sir John Willison.
From Project Gutenberg
There are certain stars that have such irregular, uncertain, vagarious ways that they were called vagabonds, or planets, by the early astronomers.
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