: 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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As the Worm Turns But, with that being said, Uncle Mo can be fickle and change sides at a moment’s notice.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Analysts hate consumer software because consumers are fickle and won’t pay for it.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
College football is fickle and a bad game could switch the narrative back.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
To that end, our Signature C logo products were a grand slam, and a rare game-changing achievement in the fickle fashion business.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
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Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Analysts hate consumer software because consumers are fickle and won’t pay for it.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
College football is fickle and a bad game could switch the narrative back.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
To that end, our Signature C logo products were a grand slam, and a rare game-changing achievement in the fickle fashion business.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Fickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fickle. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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fickle
adjective
fick·le
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: likely to change frequently without good reason : inconstant
fickle friends
fickleness
noun
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