: marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness
fickleness
noun
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
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In Gemini, the love planet can charm with words and keep things interesting, but nothing is set in stone with this fickle Air sign.
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Uranus’s entrance to Gemini forecasts a fickle heart.
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Austin's fickle weather can swing temperatures from one extreme to the other.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
In Gemini, the love planet can charm with words and keep things interesting, but nothing is set in stone with this fickle Air sign.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 July 2025
Uranus’s entrance to Gemini forecasts a fickle heart.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 7 July 2025
Austin's fickle weather can swing temperatures from one extreme to the other.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
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“Fickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fickle. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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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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