fickle

FIK-uladj

Meaning changing loyalties or feelings often

Memory hook a FICKLE NICKEL: flips like a coin. Ivy picks her best friend by flipping a nickel: heads it’s Zoe, tails it’s Lila, and tomorrow she flips again. Loyalty that flips like a coin is fickle.

The fickle cat loved me on Monday and ignored me by Tuesday.

In context Fans can be fickle: they cheered the young pitcher all spring, then booed him the moment he lost two games in a row.

Similar changeable, inconstant, unreliable, capricious

Opposite loyal, faithful, constant

From Old English ficol, “deceitful, crafty.”

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