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 Translation for 'capricious' from English to Icelandic
ADJ   capricious | more capricious | most capricious
SYNO capricious | freakish | impulsive | ...
mislyndur {adj}capricious
dyntóttur {adj}capricious
kenjóttur {adj}capricious
keipóttur {adj}capricious
duttlungafullur {adj}capricious
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Usage Examples English
  • At the request of his superior François Le Mercier, Poncet wrote an account of his experience. Poncet has been described as "an unreliable and capricious character".
  • Cleopatra made some appearances while the characters were on Egypt. She is portrayed as bad tempered and capricious, particularly with Julius Caesar, with whom she has a relationship.
  • A California manufacturer of fruit and vegetable containers challenged the rule as arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • The emphasis in "Cottage Savings" on realization as an administrative requirement makes evident the capricious role that realization plays in the tax field.
  • Moonshadow loses his innocence, but eventually makes peace with the world and reconciles himself to the actions of his seemingly capricious alien father.

  • Tanemura was well informed about the railways in Japan. His travel style in his book called "Kimagure Ressha" (capricious train) influenced a lot of young people.
  • Arbitrary and capricious is a legal ruling wherein an appellate court determines that a previous ruling is invalid because it was made on unreasonable grounds or without any proper consideration of circumstances.
  • Prodan was very capricious. To make him talk, the investigator was forced to bring him bananas and other products the killer ordered from him.
  • "The sphere is the most perfect, the most capricious of figures, wherein neither beginning nor end can be found." - Copernicus.
  • It held that the same arbitrary and capricious standard for reviewing agency actions applied to rescind regulations as that to enact regulations.

  • "Their artistic intelligence and skill is not limited to languages of painting, it resides in the sometimes disharmonic, sometimes utterly willful, capricious application of their personal, intra-familial, professional ambivalences.
  • Generally, unfairness implies a failure to meet an objective standard, and includes arbitrary, capricious or inconsistent conduct, regardless of whether it is intentional or negligent.
  • After development concluded, designers from Maxis regarded "The Sims 2" as very capricious during creation.
  • Conversely, with private schools, the student can be expelled for any reason – provided that the expulsion was not “arbitrary and capricious.” In Virginia, as long as a private school follows the procedures in its student handbook, a court will likely not view its actions as arbitrary and capricious.
  • In "Cementhead," a 1989 episode of the television series "Booker", the titular detective (played by Richard Grieco) tracks a capricious professional hockey player (Stephen Shellen) back to his hometown of Kamloops.

  • He was ill and tired of life at the age of 38, suffering from rheumatism. He was capricious and nervous, demanding in nature like a spoiled child, those who knew him said.
  • The decision was criticised as "creating capricious results". It has now been overruled by [...].
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