Sentence example with the word 'caprice'

caprice

arbitrariness, carelessness, crankiness, fancy, freakishness, humorsomeness, mannerism, motivelessness, potpourri, temperamentalness, vagary, whimsy

Definition n. a sudden desire

Last update: January 25, 2017


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You ask me to break my promises and risk my honor on your caprice.   [noun]

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Here were cunning and yet courage; impudence and yet truth; caprice and yet honor.   [Please select]

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The creation of a new capital by Constantine was not an act of personal caprice or individual judgment.   [noun]

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- On the death of Peter (1725) the internal tranquillity and progress of the empire were again seriously threatened by the uncertainty of the order of succession, and the autocratic power which he had wielded so vigorously passed into the hands of a series of weak, indolent sovereigns who were habitually guided by personal caprice and the advice of intriguing favourites rather than by serious political considerations.   [noun]

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--I hold my peace too dear, To let it, like the plume upon her cap, Shake at each nod that her caprice shall dictate.   [noun]

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Observe, I would by no means recommend your persevering in this unprofitable pursuit--but you say you are quite independent of the public caprice.   [noun]

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Is it not true that legists are governed by caprice in giving and taking away rights.   [noun]

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Pierre Leroux says; in short, to make such use of them as passion, interest, or even caprice, may suggest.   [noun]

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With them he was a man speaking to his fellow-man, instead of a despot speaking with creatures whose very existence was the plaything of his own caprice.   [noun]

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Naboth, and the miller of Sans-Souci, would have protested against French law, as they protested against the caprice of their kings.   [noun]

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