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 • Jan. 16, 2013
Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a rule, however, the voices seemed vagarious, and he attached no importance to them, except as phenomena which interested him slightly.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James
Thus the two lovers of Melicent foreplanned the future, and did not admit into their accounting vagarious Dame Chance.
From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch
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 The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene
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