A capricious refusal.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A capricious summer breeze.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I have just left Augereau, who was vomiting fire and fury against what he calls your capricious proclamations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of the private life of Napoleon]

Shawcross, who once worked for Evans, wrote that he was a bad manager and a "capricious" editor.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Harry Met Willie] Reference

They're kind of capricious about that, requiring registration for some stories and not for others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lance Mannion:] Reference

Sometimes also they are arbitrary, at least dependent on a kind of capricious analogy like many of the reasonings of lawyers. 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals] Reference

A woman whom he has seduced because he despised her -- calling her capricious because she answered to his caprice, whimsical, because she was as flighty as his error.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Durer] Reference

Yet so capricious is Fame, that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Contrary to this article's statements, Apple's decision is not 'capricious'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daring Fireball] Reference

Sometimes also they are arbitrary, at least dependent on a kind of capricious analogy like many of the reasonings of lawyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals] Reference

This kind of capricious interference of the state in private business smacks of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [China’s Yukos] Reference

The moratorium, he said, was arbitrary and capricious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Administration Challenges Ruling On Oil Drilling] Reference

"Moreover, the decision is arbitrary, capricious and overbroad.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Advocacy groups call on DMV to rescind policy limiting use of work permit cards] Reference

Sidonie, a fitting cage for that capricious, gaudy-plumaged bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Fashion is ever capricious in the selection of objects for its recognition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pirate of Parts] Reference

Sidonie, capricious and cold as she was, responded to that whim of his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Fortune is capricious, and in six months we may be richer than we ever have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The courts know when an action is “arbitrary and capricious” and have so ruled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil spill politics] Reference

I selected a 2003 Chambolle-Musigny, in a bid to test the capricious Pinot Noir grape variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling a Wine by its Glass] Reference

I was not the only object of his capricious cruelties: I saw all his subjects groaning under them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Automobiles are capricious things, like women, and sometimes they will and sometimes they will not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Concern over the deficit can be an oddly capricious affliction, particularly in the United States Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonkbook: State aid delayed; EPA regs face lawsuit; GOP targets health care funding; oil spill larger than thought] Reference

He is wondrously capricious to seem a judgment, and listens with a sower attention to what he understands not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

The appetite was very capricious — not to say poor, and he was obliged to be exceedingly careful in his diet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Electric Bath] Reference

The married life of Madame de Berny was unhappy; she was intelligent and sentimental; he, capricious and morose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Someone who studies history becomes humble in the face of the ceaseless changes and capricious mixing of motives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economists Out to Lunch] Reference

Young people everywhere want to be capricious and outrageous, and no one does the two better than America's youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [America’s New Icons] Reference

He had analyzed Madame de Bergenheim's character well enough to perceive the least variation in her capricious nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A proposal to cut contractor spending by 10 percent a year for three years is "arbitrary and capricious," Connolly said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia officials make case for Gates to keep Joint Forces Command open] Reference

He demanded a new rating between R and X. "I submit that the entire rating system is arbitrary and capricious," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference

Now, the tricky part about cravings is differentiating between the needs of the body and the capricious desires of the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa Turner: Food Cravings? Listen to Your Body] Reference

She thought that perhaps she had been capricious and harsh in leaving him without a word of farewell, without even a letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But immediately on my return to the nunnery I was again subjected to the same cruel, capricious, and unreasonable punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

"" The government of the United States is being incredibly capricious with us to satisfy the craven needs of our competitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blow To The Empire] Reference

And my father was a very - when he was younger, was a very repressive, capricious, punitive, incomprehensible, distant person.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sirius' Poetry From New Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin] Reference

Trained as a mathematician, Dyachenko is methodical, rational and calm -- a sharp contrast to her willful and capricious father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Father's Keeper] Reference

In his lawsuit, Abbott called the ban "an unjustified, arbitrary and capricious policy that will inflict harm upon coastal communities.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas Sues Obama Administration Over 'Unjustified' Deepwater Drilling Moratorium] Reference

Intent on swaying such a capricious electorate, both sides have saturated the airwaves in battleground states with Spanish-language ads.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SWING VOTE: COMING OF AGE] Reference