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SYLLABICATION: fick·le
PRONUNCIATION: fkl
ADJECTIVE: Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English fikel, from Old English ficol, deceitful.
OTHER FORMS: fickle·ness —NOUN
fickly —ADVERB
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Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
http://ut.essortment.com/marktwainbiogr_rtqw.htmBut even in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the germs of this idea can be found in the fickle way that the townspeople first ostracize and almost lynch Muff Potter only to turn around when he is proven innocent and "fondle him as lavishly as
abused before"