How to Use capricious in a Sentence

capricious

adjective

• The court ruled that the punishment was arbitrary and capricious.
• Speech tends to drift out of her, as airy and capricious as dandelion fluff.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
• Art has the capricious tendency to thrive on conflict and uncertainty.
  — Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• But the capricious nature of the disease made that hard.
  — Sandy Banks Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020
• Wang wanted to find the most capricious radio signals in the sky.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 Feb. 2021
• The court ruled that the increase was arbitrary and capricious.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• To pick against my childhood team might be seen as the best way to pull one over on the capricious gods of baseball.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
• The court ruled the increase was arbitrary and capricious.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
• No doubt about it, the spring weather for the past few years has been, to put it politely, capricious.
  — Roxie Hammill, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Some are subject to the whims of capricious billionaires.
  — Matthew Miles Goodrich, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Similar scenes played out all over the metro area, a reminder of the capricious nature of storms.
  — Bryn Stole, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• The judge is abusing the arbitrary and capricious standard.
  — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• The gaps in resources and talent between the Wisconsins and the Winthrops have been winnowed by the effects of a capricious virus.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Investors may be capricious, but the market's math is a stubborn thing.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020
• Their capricious nature will make for a nerve-wracking eclipse day.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• Teach, Donny’s capricious and foul-mouthed friend, barges into the shop mid-lecture.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022
• All of which makes the decision to ban Parler seem somewhat capricious.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
• But a virus this capricious could thwart further efforts by the N.F.L. to return to something that feels like normal.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• Myth #4: AI is a machine that is trustworthy and will do as it is told, while humans are capricious and act on whims.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Often the wheel, spun by the blind and capricious goddess of fortune, features a royal figure trying to cling to it.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• That all should add even more unpredictability to a league that can be quite capricious.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
• Burrows played a god, one of a capricious little trio of grandes dames, with Mia Katigbak and Annie Golden.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• In the world of online media, Mark Zuckerberg is a capricious king, able to boost or sink a publisher with a small tweak of Facebook’s code.
  — vanityfair.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• The motions inside clouds are turbulent, with globs and eddies of gas swirling around like capricious fairies.
  — Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
• Garland’s prize if he were named FBI chief: a job that a capricious-seeming president could fire him from at any time.
  — David Weigel, Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• This means Blackout can feel capricious and jarring in a way that other battle royale games don't.
  — Julie Muncy, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
• The State Department has warned of the capricious and unpredictable nature of these policies.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The sneaky stuff — the lack of home rule, the broken tax structure, the cruel and capricious education system — was left untouched.
  — al, 5 Dec. 2022
• The motions inside clouds are turbulent, with globs and eddies of gas swirling around like capricious fairies.
  — Nia Imara, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• The issue is that Trump has from the start run his affairs like a capricious monarch who likes to have a discordant range of conflicting advice.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024