: marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness
fickleness
noun
Synonyms
Examples of fickle in a Sentence
The Weak will suck up to the Strong, for fear of losing their jobs and their money and all the fickle power they wielded only twenty-four hours ago.
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Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2004
The corporate fan who has replaced the core fan is a fickle beast, choosy about which games he'll use his precious free time to attend.
—E. M. Swift, Sports Illustrated, 15 May 2000
A failed play was a denial of what Odets was owed, for he was chasing the public no differently than did his bourgeois and nonrevolutionary contemporaries, a public as fickle as it always was and is.
—Arthur Miller, Harper's, March 1999
War is like hard-drug abuse or a fickle lover, an apparently contradictory bolt of compulsion, agony and ecstasy that draws you back in the face of better judgment time and time again.
—Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, 1999
He blames poor sales on fickle consumers.
a fickle friendship that was on and off over the years
Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2004
The corporate fan who has replaced the core fan is a fickle beast, choosy about which games he'll use his precious free time to attend.
—E. M. Swift, Sports Illustrated, 15 May 2000
A failed play was a denial of what Odets was owed, for he was chasing the public no differently than did his bourgeois and nonrevolutionary contemporaries, a public as fickle as it always was and is.
—Arthur Miller, Harper's, March 1999
War is like hard-drug abuse or a fickle lover, an apparently contradictory bolt of compulsion, agony and ecstasy that draws you back in the face of better judgment time and time again.
—Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, 1999
He blames poor sales on fickle consumers.
a fickle friendship that was on and off over the years
Recent Examples on the Web
But the president-elect's favors are fickle, and there are already signs that Musk may be overplaying his hand.
—Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
Waddington is notorious for its fickle weather—the peak is regularly hit by storms off the Pacific Ocean that freeze the summit in rime ice.
—Corbin Reiff, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
Content creators’ careers, because they’re tied to online metrics and the fickle whims of the internet, are volatile.
—Taylor Lorenz, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
And despite the fickle nature of the genre and the fatigue that can sometimes outweigh fan enthusiasm, celebrity beauty brands show no sign of slowing.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 27 Nov. 2024
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Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
Waddington is notorious for its fickle weather—the peak is regularly hit by storms off the Pacific Ocean that freeze the summit in rime ice.
—Corbin Reiff, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
Content creators’ careers, because they’re tied to online metrics and the fickle whims of the internet, are volatile.
—Taylor Lorenz, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
And despite the fickle nature of the genre and the fatigue that can sometimes outweigh fan enthusiasm, celebrity beauty brands show no sign of slowing.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Fickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fickle. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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fickle
adjective
fick·le
ˈfik-əl 
: likely to change frequently without good reason : inconstant
fickle friends
fickleness
noun
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