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liable to sudden unpredictable change
erratic behavior
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liable to sudden unpredictable change
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having no fixed course
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likely to perform unpredictably; ; ; - Osbert Lancaster
fickle weather
mercurial twists of temperament
a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next
an erratic comet
his life followed a wandering course
a planetary vagabond
erratic winds are the bane of a sailor
a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't
that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute
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