vagarious
Americanadjective
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characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious.
a vagarious foreign policy.
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roving; wandering.
vagarious artists.
adjective
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- 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.
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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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As a rule, however, the voices seemed vagarious, and he attached no importance to them, except as phenomena which interested him slightly.
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She had a slow, vagarious notion that all of the cots were tilted, so that they appeared each on a cross, these mothers.
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