vagarious

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It is a troubling state of affairs indeed if the vagarious interests of one federal prosecutor, acting outside of public view, can determine so much about an individual’s future.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2013

Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved.

From Time Magazine Archive

This may be a whimsical conclusion to the study of a personality so perplexing and vagarious as Sir John Willison.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus

Thus the two lovers of Melicent foreplanned the future, and did not admit into their accounting vagarious Dame Chance.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch

There are certain stars that have such irregular, uncertain, vagarious ways that they were called vagabonds, or planets, by the early astronomers.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White