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Discover LudwigThe phrase "capricious manner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe behavior or actions that are unpredictable or subject to sudden changes, often without logical reasoning.
Example: "Her decisions were made in a capricious manner, leaving her colleagues confused about the direction of the project."
Alternatives: "whimsical way" or "fickle manner".
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The Saudi judicial system moves in a mysterious, not to say capricious manner.
Omar tried to convince the court that the military's capricious manner of deciding which citizens will go before the tribunals rendered the practice procedurally untenable.
[cartoon id= a15895"] Omar tried to convince the court that the military's capricious manner of deciding which citizens will go before the tribunals rendered the practice procedurally untenable.
That fee was voided last year by a federal judge saying that they have been set in an arbitrary and capricious manner.
Justice William L. Underwood Jr. of State Supreme Court ruled that the village had acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner and had "arbitrarily singled out" the club in assessing an application processing fee.
Mr. Fisher said that officials had been crafting and enforcing tax and regulatory policy "in a capricious manner that makes long-term planning, including expanding payrolls, difficult, if not impossible".
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But Democratic legislators — swayed by at least 138 cases nationally in which people sentenced to death were later exonerated and by arguments that the death penalty is imposed in a capricious, discriminatory manner and is not a deterrent to crime — voted for repeal.
She was prone to capricious fashion choices.
The firefighter, Timothy Brown, sued the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission on Aug. 4, accusing it of acting "in an arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable manner" when it paved the way for the project by refusing to grant historic protection to the building on the site where the $100 million center would be constructed.
He has had years to develop a sense of entitlement and the rich man's capricious and demanding manner.
That decision forced states to reconsider their death penalty statutes to ensure they were not administered in a capricious or discriminatory manner.
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