Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deceitfully.
  • In a fickle manner; without firmness or steadiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In a fickle manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb obsolete In a fickle manner.

Etymologies

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fickle +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • But after I lost all the adorable baby part of my baby fat and only had the fat part left, they all gleefully and fickly moved on to encouraging the show business aspirations of my younger, lighter, and perkier cousin, Debbie Aaron.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • Equally, it could be vulnerable to its aficionados fickly following friends to the next big thing in social networking.

    A Crusade to Protect the Baguette? 2010

  • I think this is the kind of personal attack that's going to turn a lot of fickly independents off.

    CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2008 2008

  • My point is still that legal and illegal immigration has historically been fickly applied.

    Waldo Jaquith - May 1 immigrant protests. 2006

  • My point is still that legal and illegal immigration has historically been fickly applied.

    Waldo Jaquith - May 1 immigrant protests. 2006

  • To those believers shall he who is of my type among men not bind his heart; in those spring – times and many – hued meadows shall he not believe, who knoweth the fickly faint – hearted human species!

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • This very quality, in old Welsh literature, is more than once given as a characteristic of extreme age; "I am old, bent double; I am fickly rash." says

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

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